Crimson Bull Method 1 driver is “nonetheless pinching” himself after incomes a drive with one of many high groups within the championship.
After impressing throughout his rookie season with , Hadjar earned the promotion to turn out to be four-time champion Max Verstappen’s team-mate. Whereas the Milton Keynes outfit has struggled in recent times to discover a team-mate for the Dutchman who is ready to extract the identical degree of efficiency from the automotive, Hadjar has had a strong begin to the 2026 season.
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“Signing is a primary step. It is a large step. However then you definitely’re like, ‘OK, now I do know what I’ve forward of me. Now I’ve a path. I’ve a trajectory. I do know it is all about delivering now. And the possibilities are low that you simply make it, however there’s nonetheless an opportunity,'” about signing as a Crimson Bull junior driver.
“And once I look again on the previous couple of years, what I’ve delivered, the strain I needed to be sat there in the present day, I have to say that I am nonetheless pinching myself to grasp I am right here working at one of many greatest groups on the grid is bizarre.”
Isack Hadjar, Crimson Bull Racing
Isack Hadjar, Crimson Bull Racing
Discussing how he offers with the strain of being at a high workforce, the 21-year-old driver added: “It comes from coaching. I’d say since go-karting, I’ve by no means had a second the place I knew, ‘OK, this 12 months I’ve a dominant workforce, it is going to be straightforward, I am going to enter the higher classes simply’. It is at all times been fixed strain, and I at all times needed to show one thing.”
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Following the primary three rounds of the season, Hadjar at present sits twelfth within the drivers’ standings with 4 factors. Compared, Verstappen is ninth with 12 factors.
The subsequent race is the Miami Grand Prix from 1-3 Could.
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