Isack Hadjar, who has joined Crimson Bull for 2026, has shared a daring prediction for the upcoming season.
The French-Algerian driver has joined the Milton Keynes outfit as a brand new set of laws is launched to the championship, which means he should adapt not solely to a brand new group, but additionally the brand new automobiles. Regardless of this, he predicts that he might be combating for the championship – one thing he shared on the pink carpet on the 2026 Autosport Awards.
Throughout his rookie Components 1 season with Crimson Bull’s sister group, Racing Bulls, Hadjar completed twelfth within the drivers’ standings with 51 factors and secured his first F1 podium end on the Dutch Grand Prix.
After Hadjar signed with Crimson Bull for 2026, group principal Laurent Mekies shared that Hadjar may have full help for the 12 months forward after years of the group fighting its second driver.
“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 12 months,” Mekies stated on the Autosport Enterprise Trade London.
“Sure, we have made some progress with Yuki, however not on the stage that we felt we must always have reached. So we’re conscious that we have to do a greater job there.
The group chief later added: “[Isack] wouldn’t like what I’ll say, however I suppose in some respects, the truth that every little 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.
“He is totally conscious of the problem. He has his toes on the bottom. He is a really humble man, and we’re going to help him 360 to ensure that he can specific his expertise in that automotive.”
The 2026 season will kick off with the Australian Grand Prix from 6-8 March, adopted by the Chinese language Grand Prix the week after on 13-15 March.
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