F1 TV presenter James Hinchcliffe has weighed in on Isack Hadjar’s future at Crimson Bull, questioning whether or not the French-Algerian driver might break the crew’s streak of scuffling with its second driver.
Hadjar secured the coveted seat alongside four-time champion Max Verstappen after impressing throughout his rookie season with Racing Bulls. However the transfer has come below scrutiny from followers and people inside the paddock after years of the Milton Keynes outfit changing drivers within the seat subsequent to Verstappen.
After changing Sergio Perez for the 2025 season, Liam Lawson was demoted to Racing Bulls following simply two race weekends. Yuki Tsunoda, who took Lawson’s spot, remained with Crimson Bull till the tip of 2025, however has now moved to a reserve driver position with Hadjar taking his place.
Hinchcliffe analysed whether or not Hadjar may very well be the driving force to finish the streak at Crimson Bull.
“There’s so many variables to that, it’s so exhausting to know,” Hinchcliffe mentioned throughout an look on The Crimson Flags Podcast. “As a result of, sure, it’s a brand new ruleset, proper? However Crimson Bull’s gone by means of a number of rulesets and the Verstappen/team-mate relationship has form of been the identical all through them, proper?
“However it’s the primary one which’s not Newey-inspired, so is there one thing to that? Is there one thing about the best way that Adrian designs automobiles that’s simply that a lot trickier to drive?
Isack Hadjar, Crimson Bull Racing
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“DC’s [David Coulthard] telling is he doesn’t actually care in regards to the drivers’ emotions. ‘That is the quickest strategy to construct a automobile, you determine drive it, that’s your job. My job is to construct the quickest automobile, your job is to drive it as rapidly as attainable.’
“So, with out that mentality, in the event that they’re going to attempt to construct a automobile that’s somewhat extra forgiving, perhaps extra all-rounding, hand over somewhat little bit of pure tempo for somewhat little bit of drivability, that might play into Hadjar’s profit.
“That might play into his hand and make him appear to be, ‘Oh, I’m the man who closed the hole to Max’, when there is perhaps extra to the story.
“Clearly, he is phenomenally proficient. And with a whole rule set, it is nearly as good an opportunity as anybody has.”
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