Isack Hadjar has admitted that he felt the \u201cconsistency was nowhere\u201d in his first sessions as a Red Bull driver, but insisted that the issues he faced were expected and should not affect his performance in the Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old hit the ground running in FP1<\/a>, briefly holding the top spot on his debut for the Milton Keynes outfit before he suffered a \u201cbig lock-up\u201d that saw him take to the grass, ultimately ending the hour in fourth place behind team mate Max Verstappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another moment in FP2<\/a> \u2013 this time a massive snap at Turn 5 \u2013 saw Hadjar<\/a> narrowly avoid the wall and he wound up as the only driver from the expected top four teams to place outside of the top eight, taking P9 on the timesheets.<\/p>\n \u201cIn FP1 everything went pretty well, and then FP2 I just had a few issues with the car,\u201d he said after the session. \u201cSo yeah, consistency was nowhere really, and I\u2019ve been struggling a bit more with the car balance. We made a few changes so let\u2019s see what we understood.\u201d<\/p>\n Prompted on what the biggest issue he endured was, Hadjar explained: \u201cInconsistency in the deployment \u2013 I had to adapt my braking points and it was just very messy.<\/p>\n \u201cFor sure it was expected. As long as we know why and we don\u2019t make the same mistake again, then we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n With multiple teams seemingly in the fight for pole position, the adjustments they make overnight to optimise their one-lap pace for Qualifying will be crucial in influencing the final order \u2013 something which Chief Engineer Paul Monaghan is acutely aware of.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve seen how easy it is to get it wrong; we\u2019ve seen how difficult it is to get it to be perfect,\u201d Monaghan said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to take those lessons into tomorrow and make sure we\u2019re ready for Qualifying and the race. Every time you run it, there\u2019s a new way to get it wrong.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not in our control what the others do. All we can do is get the best out of our car tomorrow and see where we end up. If we do a better job than the others, we should be competitive.<\/p>\n \u201cIf we\u2019re ill-prepared relative to our opposition, we won\u2019t be looking quite so good. I don\u2019t know that it matters what our opposition does \u2013 it\u2019s more sensitive to what we do tomorrow, and that\u2019s how I see it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar has admitted that he felt the \u201cconsistency was nowhere\u201d in his first sessions as a Red…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-525543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}