{"id":790147,"date":"2026-07-09T23:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790147\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T23:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T23:01:12","slug":"isack-hadjar-bemoans-waste-of-a-race-after-british-gp-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790147\/","title":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar bemoans &#8216;waste of a race&#8217; after British GP issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isack Hadjar has described the British Grand Prix as a \u201cwaste of a race\u201d despite scoring a fifth-place finish for Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The result marked his fifth-straight point-scoring result, all of which have come inside the top six.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Having voiced <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/isack-hadjar-voices-frustration-over-shocking-red-bull-issue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his frustration after the sprint race on Saturday<\/a> over his poor start, Hadjar was able to get away with no issues for the main event.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Starting ahead of team-mate Max Verstappen, Hadjar was soon overtaken by the four-time champion but was pleased with how he was able to keep touch with him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a very good start this time, very good,\u201d\u00a0Hadjar told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust the pace in the first three laps, very nice. I was kind of kind with Max.\u00a0But it&#8217;s good to follow him, which I was doing really well.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, his race soured slightly when he suffered a drop off in pace, which righted itself after he changed his front wing during a pit stop.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then suddenly a huge drop off of pace,\u201d he said.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I thought] \u2018OK, maybe it\u2019s something wrong I did in terms of tyre management.\u2019\u00a0I went on the hard, new tyres [and I had] no pace.\u00a0I was very confused.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told we were missing load on the car. And once they changed the front wing, went back [out] again.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI nearly gained two seconds straight away.\u00a0A waste of a race, really.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar has described the British Grand Prix as a \u201cwaste of a race\u201d despite scoring a fifth-place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-790147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790147","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=790147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}