{"id":170841,"date":"2025-06-09T17:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170841\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T17:49:09","slug":"has-isack-hadjar-become-the-next-in-line-to-take-on-poisoned-red-bull-chalice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170841\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Isack Hadjar become the next in line to take on poisoned Red Bull chalice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been far from plain sailing at Red Bull so far this year, and with one driver down and one struggling in the second seat, Formula 1<\/a> rookie Isack Hadjar is potentially in line for a shock promotion.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman, who came second in the Formula 2 championship last year, was plucked out from Red Bull\u2019s junior programme and into its sister team Racing Bulls for this year.<\/p>\n

Despite a sketchy start, in which he spun into retirement on the formation lap in Australia, Hadjar has significantly impressed in the team, taking five top 10 finishes so far.<\/p>\n

His maturity and speed see him currently sitting in ninth place in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a>, with 21 points.<\/p>\n

Hadjar\u2019s performances have therefore surely placed him on the radar of both Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, who are finding themselves witnessing Yuki Tsunoda, Hadjar\u2019s original team-mate, struggling in the main team alongside Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n

Despite having improved on Liam Lawson\u2019s two performances at the start of the season, the Japanese driver is now himself unable to extract enough from the RB21 to see him get close to the number one man.<\/p>\n

However, the level of poison that appears to be in the chalice that is the Red Bull second seat is so high that a former World Champion has urged Hadjar to reject the call should it come.<\/p>\n

Speaking in his role as pundit for Sky F1, Nico Rosberg stated: \u201cIf I was Hadjar now, if ever the team starts to mention [a promotion], I would literally decline.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, decline as hard as you possibly can. Because he\u2019s doing such a great job there with the RBs, he\u2019s in a great position, just flat decline and say, \u2018No way.\u2019 You need to do that, like decline.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Hadjar has impressed in his nine races in F1 so far<\/p>\n

Will Hadjar heed the Rosberg warning?<\/p>\n

Rosberg\u2019s strong views on the issue might be met with little agreement, given Hadjar has already publicly stated his willingness to take on the role<\/a> if he is asked to do so.<\/p>\n

Hadjar said that he was \u201cnot planning\u201d to join the team, but conveyed his keenness to join if asked, saying: \u201cI would say I\u2019m ready, even if I\u2019m not, I\u2019d say I\u2019m ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it appears that despite putting himself forward for the drive if the situation came about, Hadjar will be set to stay put at Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n

Marko has this week written in his Speedweek column that he expects Tsunoda to see out the season, despite the \u201cserious\u201d<\/a> concern about his performances.<\/p>\n

Horner has also said that \u201ctime is on our side\u201d when it comes to Tsunoda hopefully improving in the car, and he has also received the support of Verstappen, who declared that he is \u201cnot a pancake.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/strong> \u2013 Red Bull to allow Yuki Tsunoda to trial mystery change in Canada<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been far from plain sailing at Red Bull so far this year, and with one driver…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,1085,71126,43848,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-isack-hadjar","12":"tag-racingbulls","13":"tag-redbull","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114654672879497911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170841","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=170841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}