Isack Hadjar<\/a> scored his first F1 points three rounds into the 2025 season in Japan with an eighth-place finish and managed a best of sixth at Monaco inside the first half of the campaign.<\/p>\nHe took a maiden podium finish at Zandvoort after the summer break and finished 12th overall in the standings, two spots ahead of team-mate Liam Lawson.<\/p>\n
Hadjar earned himself a promotion to the main Red Bull team in place of the struggling Yuki Tsunoda, who was 17th in the standings last season.<\/p>\n
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\u201cUnbelievable\u201d first season for Hadjar praised by Red Bull boss<\/p>\n
In recent years, a promotion to Red Bull from its sister team has proven to be a poisoned chalice for drivers, with the likes of Lawson and Tsunoda struggling to replicate solid form from the previous year.<\/p>\n
In conversation with the official F1 website, Mekies has moved to temper results expectations, and instead wants Hadjar to \u201ccontinue to surprise\u201d as he did in 2025.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsack has had an unbelievable first season,\u201d Mekies said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no doubt that in terms of starting point \u2013 so where he started in January \u2013 the starting point was outstanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we are strong believers not only in the raw talent, but also in the ability of the drivers to develop.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have seen so many champions developing through the years, doing things that they had not done in the car a few races before.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ve seen that with Isack this year too. We\u2019ve seen him making stuff in the car that he was not doing three races before.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cWe would like him to continue on that path. We don’t see it as a landing point.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see it as another start for him to continue to develop, to continue to impress us, to continue to surprise us.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you will expect that in the second year. You will expect that in the third year, perhaps in the fourth year. So that’s a little bit of the journey for us together.\u201d<\/p>\n
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