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Hadjar’s last five races tell a story of a driver who peaked at Azerbaijan and has been sliding back since. The podium in Baku from P4 on the grid was the high point: 15 points, a clean run through the field and the kind of result that suggested a sustained charge up the standings. What followed was more complicated. A P5 in Malaysia showed he could still score heavily, but the United States Grand Prix brought a net loss of three places from P3 on the grid to P6 and Singapore was a recovery drive that yielded just one point from the back of the grid.
Mexico City was the latest step in the wrong direction. Starting P7 and finishing P9 for two points is the sort of result that stalls a championship campaign rather than builds one. Three of his last four races have produced eight points or fewer and the trajectory from Baku’s podium has been consistently downward. For a driver who stepped up from RB to Red Bull ahead of this season, the pressure to convert grid positions into results is only growing.
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Hadjar finished P9 from P7 on the grid at the Mexico City Grand Prix, scoring two points. The two-place net loss is the third time in his last four races that he’s finished lower than he started and it adds only modestly to a points tally that needed something more substantial with the season entering its final stretch.
2026 So Far
Hadjar sits P8 in the drivers’ championship with 107 points and the shape of his season is one of early promise followed by a gradual plateau. The Azerbaijan podium remains his standout moment, but the points have dried up since. In just his second F1 season, having made his debut in 2025 with RB before earning the Red Bull seat, he’s accumulated three career podiums but is yet to convert pace into a consistent upper-midfield rhythm at this level. P8 in the standings is a solid foundation but the gap to the positions above it will be difficult to close if the recent trend of grid-to-finish regression continues.
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Hadjar takes blame after Russell clash at Mexico GP
Isack Hadjar has held his hands up over his collision with George Russell at the Mexico City Grand Prix, admitting the incident was largely his own fault. The Frenchman had qualified seventh at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, two tenths of a second and three grid slots behind Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen, but recovered two places off the line to run in a stronger position. He was in the middle of holding Russell at bay when the clash occurred, damaging his race and leaving him fortunate to salvage two points from what had been a more promising afternoon. Hadjar described the contact as something that effectively wrecked his Mexico GP, yet he wasn’t pointing fingers at the Mercedes driver. Taking responsibility at this stage of his rookie season says something about how Hadjar is developing his racecraft awareness, even if the result itself was a painful lesson. Two points is better than nothing given the circumstances but it’s a long way from what the pace in the early laps suggested was possible. Red Bull will want to see cleaner wheel-to-wheel battles from Hadjar as the season heads into its final rounds, and the 20-year-old clearly knows it.
Mexico GP: Russell clash costs Hadjar a big result
Isack Hadjar’s Mexico City Grand Prix unravelled in the opening lap after a collision with George Russell undid what had been a near-perfect start. Hadjar had qualified seventh but his getaway was exceptional, moving up to fifth through the first sequence of corners at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez. That momentum was cut short when Russell made contact at Turn 6, forcing Hadjar wide and dropping him back through the order. The incident left the Red Bull rookie to spend the rest of the afternoon recovering ground he should never have lost, and he was candid afterwards about how much the clash had cost him. Hadjar felt the pace he and the car had shown in those opening moments was genuine, which made the situation more frustrating rather than less. A strong result had looked very much on the cards before the contact, and the timing of it, so early in the race when track position is at its most valuable, made recovery extremely difficult. It’s the kind of afternoon that stings precisely because the underlying performance was there. Hadjar has shown throughout his debut season that he can extract strong qualifying laps and he’s demonstrated racecraft beyond his experience level on multiple occasions, so throwing away a potential top-five finish through no real fault of his own is a bitter pill. The incident will likely be reviewed by the stewards or at least discussed in the paddock given how directly it affected his race. For now Hadjar can only look ahead to the next round knowing the raw speed in his package remains intact.