Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has hinted that the team is likely to retain Isack Hadjar for the 2027 campaign.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hadjar joined the Milton Keynes-based squad this year, becoming the latest name to be paired alongside Max Verstappen after a series of competitors failed to impress.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Frenchman has enjoyed a strong start to the year and bagged his seventh consecutive top-six finish last Sunday in Hungary.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
His results are a stark contrast to several drivers who were in the seat before him, who were unable to consistently bring home point-scoring results.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It is good news that we have a strong second driver for the first time in quite a long time,\u201d Mekies told De Telegraaf.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“That was also one of our goals prior to this season. Isack is performing solidly and has learned a lot from the team and from Max.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hadjar is widely expected to be retained by Red Bull for next year given his performances, but question marks still remain over Verstappen’s future, despite the Dutchman having a contract in place.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
While Mekies did not officially confirm Hadjar will return next year, the team boss implied that it will likely steer in that direction.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is good news, also for Max, that our two cars are a bit closer together,\u201d he added.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven’t discussed the future yet, but everyone can see that Isack is doing an excellent job. So we will make a logical decision.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies has hinted that the team is likely to retain Isack Hadjar for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-546314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}