Isack Hadjar in 2025!
Two promotions in two years! Isack Hadjar jumped up to Formula 1 in 2025 and as the season finishes, he has been promoted from Red Bull’s junior team VCARB, to Red Bull Racing alongside Max Verstappen!
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Isack Hadjar flew rather than climbed the Formula series ladder. He was in Formula 3 in 2022, which he finished with 3 wins, and overall 4th place in the championship.
Then in 2023, he secured himself a seat in Formula 2. Although 2023 was not so good for him as he placed 14th in the championship. But, 2024 saw him rise from 14th place to 2nd place behind Gabriel Bortoleto, with 4 wins, across the season.
Then came the promotion to F1!
Isack Hadjar replaced Liam Lawson at Racing Bulls. This was announced by the team in December 2024.
Isack’s season began with a fall or rather a spinout!
The first race of this season, the Australian Grand Prix saw a lot of rain. It was a race where veteran drivers like Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz spun out due to unexpected torque and wheel spin due to battery power.
Unfortunately for Isack Hadjar, he was one of the six drivers who crashed due to the heavy rains. Sadly, for Isack, he did not even start the race as he spun and hit the wall during the formation lap.
After his crash, he was seen walking back, tears on his face and it was Anthony Hamilton, Lewis Hamilton’s father who consoled him immediately.
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But Isack Hadjar has come far from that first race crash!
The Dutch grand Prix, Max Verstappen’s home race, the race track which Max helped bring back to the F1 calendar, saw Isack Hadjar qualify 4th. His highest qualifying in his one and only season in F1, yet.
Then the race began and he had an opportunity and he never let it go. With much faster cars behind him like George Russell’s Mercedes chasing him through the last few laps of the race. He became the fifth-youngest podium finisher in Formula 1 history and the first Arab driver to do so. But Isack persevered in his Racing Bulls and albeit due to Lando Norris’s engine failure, stood on the third step of the podium next to Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen.
For context, Lando Norris, the current World Champion got his first podium after one year in F1! Oscar
Piastri was the last rookie podium finisher back in 2023!
Other than Zandvoort, Isack had other amazing results as well
In Miami, Isack managed a 6th place finish, two places ahead of his teammate Liam Lawson. Isack had started 11th on the grid, from where he rose to a points place finish.
The Racing Bulls car is a comparatively easier car to drive than the Red Bull car. Isack Hadjar, really took to the Racing Bulls car like a fish to water. His teammate Liam Lawson was struggling to find his pace in the same car.
Liam Lawson, demoted to Racing Bulls, just after two races, was stunned by the move, but even after months in the Racing Bulls team, he still could not manage to give his teammate Isack Hadjar a decent fight.
Isack Hadjar really showed his talent this. He challenged drivers like George Russell, Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hailton, even Fernando Alonso. His 6th place finish at the Las Vegas Grand Prix is another example of how he extracted more out of the car than it was capable of. Liam Lawson, in the same race, only managed a measly 14th place finish.
Isack won the fight against his teammate in a head-to-head
Isack Hadjar has scored 51 points, against Liam Lawson’s 38. Liam Lawson only managed a best finish of 5th place, while Isack highest finish was a 3rd place at Zandvoort.
Another amazing fact is that, Isack Hadjar has been in F1 for only one year, raced in only 23 races this season, while his teammate, Liam Lawson has been in F1 since 2023, and raced in 35 Grand Prix.
From rookie driver to phenomenal talent!
Isack Hadjar began his racing career in 2012. In 2017, he was karting in international events. By 2019, he had made his debut in Formula 4 French Championship. He won his first F4 race at Spa.
In 2020, he achieved 8 podiums, 2 poles, 3 wins and finished 3rd in the F4 French championship. In 2021, he rose to Formula regional races. In 2021, he also won his first Formula Regional European Race in Imola.
In 2022, he finished 3rd in the standings. 2023, saw him enter Formula 3 championship.
And from there onwards, there has been no looking back for Isack Hadjar.
From F3, to F2, to F1, Isack Hadjar never slipped up. Promotion after promotion led him to Racing Bulls in 2025. Now, at the end of the most exciting 2025 F1 season, Isack Hadjar has stepped into the Red Bull RB21 as well.
Isack Hadjar has a lot of pressure on him now. As the past six teammates of Max Verstappen have been humbled in the garage next to 4-time World Champion by their own car.
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Can Isack Hadjar prove to be better than the previous second seat drivers at Red Bull Racing?
If any rookie could do it, it would be Hadjar. He has shown his ability to quickly adapt to the car, and show off how he can extract performance from a car that’s not as fast as it seems on track.
A trait which very similar to the heightened ability of Max Verstappen to extract immense pace from a failing F1 car.
Best of luck to the young French Driver for next year.
Allons-y Isack!
