Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar has revealed that contract talks for next season are yet to take place, although he is leaving any discussions to his mum.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The F1 rookie has hugely impressed in the opening rounds, having gone from strength-to-strength since his disastrous debut in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the season-opener, Hadjar failed to start the race after crashing on the formation lap, leading to an embrace with Anthony Hamilton, the father of Lewis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That incident has not defined the French-Algerian’s season, with him having immediately bounced back.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He has been a regular in Q3 in the opening seven rounds and has scored five points \u2013 four fewer than former team-mate and now Red Bull driver Yuki Tsunoda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hadjar has often been the second Red Bull family driver on the timesheets, leading to speculation already that he could soon find himself alongside Max Verstappen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For now, the 20-year-old has confirmed that contract talks for 2026 are yet to take place. He is yet to think about when he wants a deal sorted, although will leave it to his mum to sort.<\/p>\n
“I haven’t thought about it at all, so we’ll see when the time comes,” Hadjar told select media, including RacingNews365<\/strong>. “But at the moment, no clue. I leave this to my mum, and we’ll see.”<\/p>\n What is certain, is that Hadjar does not look set to suffer the same fate as Liam Lawson or Jack Doohan this season, in being demoted after only some races.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lawson was demoted to Racing Bulls after two rounds, whilst Doohan was dropped by Alpine to its reserve role ahead of Imola.<\/p>\n It is becoming a staggering norm in F1, although Hadjar recognises the importance of teams being able to axe drivers quickly<\/p>\n “It’s quite extreme, but I feel like if your contract is really secure, and you have a one, four or five years or something [deal], and you start underperforming, then I think there’s a big issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Because it’s Formula 1, and we want drivers that are performing at the best level possible. So it’s good to always have an option to be replaced.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar has revealed that contract talks for next season are yet to take place, although…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114546176426436043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}