{"id":42561,"date":"2026-09-02T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/42561\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:10:20","slug":"liam-lawson-stays-with-red-bull-as-injured-hadjar-misses-italian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/42561\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson stays with Red Bull as injured Hadjar misses Italian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Liam Lawson will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/19\/liam-lawson-set-for-shock-return-to-red-bull-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">remain Max Verstappen&#8217;s Formula 1 teammate<\/a> at Red Bull for the Italian Grand Prix after Isack Hadjar failed to recover in time from his wrist injury, the team confirmed overnight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hadjar had said he was hopeful of returning for Sunday&#8217;s race but will now miss a second event with injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/21\/lawson-gears-up-for-good-opportunity-with-red-bull-return\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawson keeps Hadjar&#8217;s spot<\/a> at Red Bull and Yuki Tsunoda gets a second race with Racing Bulls in Lawson&#8217;s usual seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;Liam will drive alongside Max at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, while Isack continues to make encouraging progress following the wrist injury sustained during the summer break,&#8221; Red Bull said on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cThe team is closely monitoring his rehabilitation and will take no unnecessary risks with his return to competition and wishes him a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/red-bull-driver-liam-lawson-of-new-zealand-exits-the-oit-lan-LM42Y7BMTBDBRPUSQVYNVTKLCY.jpg\" alt=\"Red Bull driver Liam Lawson of New Zealand exits the oit lane during the qualifying for the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort , Netherlands.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-hi5x8q-0 cWTYyG image-metadata\">Red Bull driver Liam Lawson of New Zealand exits the oit lane during the qualifying for the Formula One Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort , Netherlands. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">There was no word on whether a return for next week\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix is possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Hadjar already spent last month&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix on the sidelines with a wrist brace after injuring himself days before, reportedly during a boxing workout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lawson moved up from Racing Bulls for the race and placed a solid seventh, while Tsunoda was 11th on his F1 return, his first race since he was dropped by Red Bull in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">In a Red Bull team video from the Dutch Grand Prix, Hadjar said it was frustrating to be a spectator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">\u201cIt\u2019s my first injury ever in my whole existence, career, whatever. It\u2019s weird to be on the bench and I\u2019m not happy about it,\u201d Hadjar said. \u201cIt\u2019s not swollen, which is a good sign. It\u2019s healing fast. Every day I have a bit more mobility and I\u2019m hopeful for Monza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lawson is having his strongest season in F1 and is ninth in the standings, one place behind Hadjar, with almost double the points of Racing Bulls rookie Arvid Lindblad. That&#8217;s helped bring about the New Zealander&#8217;s return to Red Bull, where he was dropped after just two races in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson will remain Max Verstappen&#8217;s Formula 1 teammate at Red Bull for the Italian Grand Prix after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17288,249,27215,6,11032,27216],"class_list":["post-42561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-grand-prix","tag-netherlands","tag-race","tag-visa-cash-app-racing-bulls-f1-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}