{"id":831887,"date":"2026-07-28T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831887\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T18:00:08","slug":"red-bull-racing-2027-team-principal-mekies-praises-isack-hadjar-a-logical-decision-formula-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/831887\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull Racing 2027: Team Principal Mekies praises Isack Hadjar \u2013 a logical decision &#8211; Formula 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">The 21-year-old Frenchman Isack Hadjar is putting in one solid race after another for Red Bull Racing. In Belgium, he fought his way up from 21st on the grid to sixth place; \u201cthat was his best performance for us so far,\u201d praised team principal Laurent Mekies.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">In Hungary, Hadjar finished sixth once again, continuing a fine run of form: since the Canadian Grand Prix, the Parisian has finished in the top six every time \u2013 sixth in Barcelona, Spielberg, Spa and Budapest; fifth in Montreal and Silverstone; and fourth in Monaco as his best result. This puts Hadjar in eighth place in the World Championship standings.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Mekies hasn\u2019t gone that far as to confirm his compatriot for the 2027 season, but the team principal\u2019s words suggest that Hadjar will stay on.<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Laurent Mekies says: \u201cThe fact that Isack can compete at the front is very good news for us, and it\u2019s also good news for Max. We haven\u2019t discussed the future yet, but everyone can see what a good job Hadjar is doing for us. So we\u2019ll make the logical decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cp=\"text\" data-size=\"medium\" class=\"_base_1oyfm_1 _defaultText_1oyfm_630\">Since Sergio P\u00e9rez\u2019s dip in form and following the disappointing performances of Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda, Hadjar has been Max Verstappen\u2019s best team-mate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 21-year-old Frenchman Isack Hadjar is putting in one solid race after another for Red Bull Racing. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-831887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}