{"id":386462,"date":"2025-08-31T04:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386462\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T04:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T04:17:10","slug":"isack-hadjars-career-best-dutch-gp-qualifying-really-unexpected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/386462\/","title":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar\u2019s career-best Dutch GP Qualifying \u2018really unexpected\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cI\u2019m feeling great! An amazing Qualifying,\u201d said Hadjar. \u201cHonestly, yesterday was a complete disaster for me, so it was really unexpected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cThis morning, I had a really good feeling, but we knew it would be very hard to reach Q3, and actually, both of us [Racing Bulls drivers] managed to reach Q3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cHe [team mate Liam Lawson] was really pushing me hard, and I put it all on the line on that final lap and put it all together. It was a great lap, so I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Without a point in five races, Hadjar added: \u201cIt gives me a lot of confidence, because recently, I\u2019ve felt like maybe our race pace has been a bit better. I think the car is really healthy around here. <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/liam-lawson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Liam [Lawson]<\/a> was quite fast on the long run on Friday, so it gives us a lot of confidence going into the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Lawson will start from eighth place on Sunday, but was left frustrated by a lack of improvement between Q2 and Q3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cIt\u2019s good to be in Q3. It was very promising out there throughout Qualifying,\u201d said the New Zealander. \u201cI don\u2019t really know why, but we went slower in Q3, so there\u2019s some stuff to look into. I think we were feeling quite good after Q2 and naturally, everyone makes a step into Q3, but for some reason, we didn\u2019t make a step.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cIt\u2019s very sensitive here. It\u2019s obviously a tricky lap, and getting the balance right with this wind is tough. It\u2019s frustrating, because I think we had good potential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">\u201cWe need a good start and to try to stay where we are, and then let\u2019s see. It\u2019s going to be a hard race, that\u2019s for sure. It\u2019s very physical here, so it\u2019s probably going to be a long day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m feeling great! An amazing Qualifying,\u201d said Hadjar. \u201cHonestly, yesterday was a complete disaster for me, so it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-386462","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-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115121451587926496","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386462","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=386462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}