Red Bull has confirmed that Liam Lawson will continue to race for the team in this weekend\u2019s Spanish Grand Prix as Isack Hadjar continues to recover from a wrist injury.<\/p>\n
Hadjar sustained an injury to his wrist during Formula 1\u2019s summer break, leading to him being sidelined for the Dutch GP at Zandvoort last month. The Frenchman was present for the race to support Red Bull, with his wrist and upper forearm in a cast.<\/p>\n
The team opted to promote Lawson \u2014 who usually drives for Red Bull\u2019s sister F1 team, Racing Bulls \u2014 into Hadjar\u2019s seat for Zandvoort, and give the vacant Racing Bulls seat to reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n
Lawson and Tsunoda kept their respective seats for last week\u2019s Italian GP at Monza, with Red Bull informing both drivers on Wednesday that Hadjar was not ready to return.<\/p>\n
Red Bull has now made an earlier call ahead of this week\u2019s Spanish GP, announcing that Lawson will partner Max Verstappen in the senior Red Bull team for a third straight race weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision has been taken as Isack\u2019s recovery continues to progress positively,\u201d Red Bull said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile he is not yet ready to return to the cockpit, he will be in Madrid supporting the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone at Red Bull Racing looks forward to welcoming Isack back behind the wheel very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was always deemed unlikely that Hadjar would return to the Red Bull car in the middle of back-to-back race weeks. The Madring circuit in Madrid is also brand new for F1, featuring a mix of street circuit sections and fast, flowing corners with walls nearby that could have aggravated Hadjar\u2019s injury in the event of an accident.<\/p>\n
The early call will give Lawson in particular a chance to hone his preparations going into the coming race weekend.<\/p>\n
After Sunday\u2019s race at Monza, Lawson said he had no idea which car he would be driving in Madrid, but the Red Bull and Racing Bulls cars were \u201cso different to drive,\u201d making an adjustment to the Red Bull in particular with work in the simulator important.<\/p>\n
Lawson finished seventh for Red Bull at Zandvoort, but sustained damage in a clash with Nico Hulkenberg following the restart of the race in Italy that forced an extra pit stop, dropping him back and limiting him to 14th place after starting from the pit lane. Tsunoda was able to grab his first F1 point since returning at Monza, crossing the line 10th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull has confirmed that Liam Lawson will continue to race for the team in this weekend\u2019s Spanish…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[315,82],"class_list":["post-82258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-formula-1","tag-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}