Crimson Bull Racing workforce principal Laurent Mekies has detailed how the Milton Keynes outfit will assist Isack Hadjar in his first season with the workforce.
The French-Algerian driver impressed throughout his rookie Method 1 season with Crimson Bull sister workforce Racing Bulls, which secured him the seat alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen for 2026.
Crimson Bull has not shied away from making daring driver choices in recent times. After changing Sergio Perez for the 2025 season, Liam Lawson discovered himself demoted after simply two race weekends. Whereas Yuki Tsunoda stayed with the workforce till the top of the season, he has now been moved to a reserve driver function for 2026.Â
Talking on the Autosport Enterprise Trade London, Mekies, who changed Christian Horner as Crimson Bull Racing CEO and workforce principal in July 2025, mentioned how he’ll assist Hadjar throughout his first season with the outfit.
“At first, we’re not hiding behind the truth that we have to do a greater job with that second automotive, and that features the second a part of final yr. Sure, we have made some progress with Yuki, however not on the degree that we felt we should always have reached. So we’re conscious that we have to do a greater job there.
“There isn’t any simple answer. It is a complicated equation that we strategy as such. Now, I feel Isack comes with unbelievable pace. We expect the extent at which he began final yr, beginning pace was excellent. On the degree of the easiest.
“However then we equally imagine that the large guys, the champions – not solely have they got an unbelievable place to begin, however they progress. It isn’t solely progressing with the maturity or together with your dialogues with the engineers, they really go sooner.”
Isack Hadjar, Crimson Bull Racing, Max Verstappen, Crimson Bull Racing, Laurent Mekies, Crimson Bull Racing Group Principal
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Acknowledging the regulation adjustments, Mekies stated: “[Isack] wouldn’t like what I’ll say, however I suppose in some respects, the truth that every thing’s modified in 2026, he is additionally [been] given a reset about the way you go about extracting as a lot as you may from the automotive.
“He has been taking it from day one with most depth. He has moved to London.”
The workforce chief added: “He is totally conscious of the problem. He has his ft on the bottom. He is a really humble man, and we’re going to assist him 360 [degrees] to be sure that he can categorical his expertise in that automotive.”
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