Isack Hadjar will be back in action for Red Bull at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend after recovering from the fractured wrist he suffered during the summer break.<\/p>\n
Hadjar hurt himself during a gym training session shortly before the Dutch GP at Zandvoort, with the injury leaving him unable to drive.<\/p>\n
He was forced to miss the races in the Netherlands, Italy and Spain while his wrist healed, with Red Bull not wanting to take any risks in rushing him back.<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls’s regular Liam Lawson stepped up into his place and took seventh place at Zandvoort, later following that up with sixth in Spain.<\/p>\n
He had had a tougher time at Monza, thanks to an engine penalty that put him at the back of the grid and then his hopes in the race being dashed by a damaged front wing that he picked up in a clash with Nico Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n
Lawson had welcomed the opportunity to show what he could at Red Bull’s main team, having had a troubled time with the squad at the start of 2025 when he was dropped after just two races.<\/p>\n
“It’s been overall quite positive,” said Lawson. “I managed to score in two of the three. I think Monza was tough just with the whole layout of the weekend, and then the engine penalty. Then obviously having damage in the race really ruined it for us.<\/p>\n
“But I think overall we’ve had good speed.”<\/p>\n
With Hadjar now back in action, Lawson will return to Racing Bulls, meaning that his own temporary replacement Yuki Tsunoda will go back to his regular reserve driver role.<\/p>\n
Tsunoda quickly adapted to the demands of the F1 2026 cars and scored a point for Racing Bulls at the Italian GP, although that result remains subject to an appeal lodged by Audi relating to a grid formation situation following an early red flag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar will be back in action for Red Bull at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix this weekend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-905124","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\/905124","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=905124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}