{"id":78554,"date":"2026-08-25T08:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/78554\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T08:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T08:53:12","slug":"isack-hadjar-injury-timeline-confirmed-by-racing-bulls-f1-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/78554\/","title":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar injury timeline confirmed by Racing Bulls F1 boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racing Bulls CEO Peter Bayer has revealed when he learned of Isack Hadjar<\/a>\u2018s injury, which forced him out of the 2026 Formula 1<\/a> Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Hadjar, who has impressed for the Milton-Keynes-based outfit so far this season, was in attendance but not in the RB22 at Zandvoort<\/a> last weekend. <\/p>\n

The 21-year-old sustained a wrist injury during training in F1\u2019s summer break, ruling him out of the Dutch GP. <\/p>\n

Liam Lawson was called up from sister team Racing Bulls to cover for the French-Algerian racing driver. <\/p>\n

Naturally, with Lawson at Red Bull, the Faenza-based team had to make their own arrangements for the weekend and decided to strap Yuki Tsunoda back into an F1 car. <\/p>\n

Bayer revealed that he was only made aware of Hadjar\u2019s situation a week prior to the race weekend. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was late last week when I learned about the injury,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThen, obviously, the phone started ringing, a couple of phone calls, and then Tuesday the decision was taken on how we will go into this weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn terms of changes, honestly, I think as much as we do not like these things to happen, once it happens, we know what to do. You follow sort of the \u2018check book\u2019, I guess.\u201d <\/p>\n

Bayer detailed how, upon learning of Hadjar\u2019s fate, the team got ready to make Tsunoda\u2019s transition as smooth as possible given the Japanese racing driver had never driven the current generation of cars. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest change really was for Yuki\u2019s travel plans, to get him back from Greece and into the simulator, to give him the biggest support we can,\u201d he explained. <\/p>\n

\"VerstappenVerstappen hopes to see Hadjar back on the grid soon<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen wishes Isack Hadjar a speedy recovery<\/p>\n

Verstappen wasn\u2019t privy to Hadjar\u2019s situation as quickly as the likes of Bayer. <\/p>\n

The Dutchman revealed that he was only informed of Hadjar\u2019s injury on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI also got the news only on Tuesday,\u201d Verstappen confirmed. That said, he \u201chopes\u201d that Hadjar can jump back into the RB22 alongside him soon. <\/p>\n

\u201cI hope, of course, that he can recover quickly with the rest,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

As for his team-mate for the weekend, Lawson, Verstappen described how tricky the weekend could get for the Kiwi driver given it would only feature a single practice session. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for Liam to jump in, it doesn\u2019t help that it\u2019s a sprint weekend, but I saw him quickly at the simulator as well, so I hope that he got all the preparation that was possible in and that it\u2019s going to be, let\u2019s say, hopefully a more straightforward weekend,\u201d concluded the Red Bull driver. <\/p>\n

Lawson drove a stellar race, however, finishing seventh as the solitary RB22 on track after Verstappen agonisingly crashed out of his final home race.<\/p>\n

READ MORE \u2013 Nico Rosberg offers frank view on shocking Max Verstappen Zandvoort shunt<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls CEO Peter Bayer has revealed when he learned of Isack Hadjar\u2018s injury, which forced him out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21161],"tags":[21182,20587,37645,7660,57586,27892],"class_list":["post-78554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bayer","tag-bayer","tag-f1","tag-isack-hadjar","tag-max-verstappen","tag-racingbulls","tag-redbull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}