{"id":257365,"date":"2026-05-04T05:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257365\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T05:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:43:03","slug":"isack-hadjar-explains-how-he-went-from-flying-to-hitting-the-wall-in-miami-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257365\/","title":{"rendered":"Isack Hadjar explains how he went from \u201cflying\u201d to hitting the wall in Miami GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isack Hadjar<\/a> felt he was \u201cflying\u201d during the opening laps of the Miami Grand Prix and that speed lured him into losing focus and crashing out early on.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull driver was forced to start from the\u00a0pitlane after being kicked out of qualifying for his car floorboards being too big, a mistake the team owned up to and apologised to the French driver before the race.<\/p>\n

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Hadjar made swift progress up the order and has just overtaken Arvid Lindblad<\/a> for 15th on lap five when he clipped the inside wall at Turn 14, which broke his front-left suspension and sent him into the wall at Turn 15.<\/p>\n

His rapid progress and eagerness to help make amends meant he lost full concentration in the twisty middle sector which led to his crash.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole weekend I was very close and under control, but yeah, I made a mistake,\u201d Hadjar said. \u201cI felt honestly awesome on those first few laps. It was very easy for me to overtake. Lindblad was the last car I overtook. I was flying from the pits within just three laps of racing, so I think we had a very good pace. So to me it was feeling fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough one. Just like breaking the car is pissing me off a lot. And also, it was a disappoint considering the car I had. So I just threw it all away.<\/p>\n

\"Isack <\/p>\n

Isack Hadjar, Red Bull Racing<\/p>\n

Photo by: Clive Mason \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI can’t really remember [the crash] because it went by very quickly. It just felt like a big hit and I didn’t see it coming. And the car was broken. I went to the other wall and couldn’t stop it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just shows how much you need to be focused and I wasn’t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hadjar didn\u2019t leave any blame on his team for the qualifying exclusion which started his demise but accepted it was a nightmare Miami GP for both team and driver.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth the team and I made mistakes this weekend. It’s been a bit of a disaster from both our sides,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to stick together and see what we can do the next weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re happy there’s more performance in the car. It’s not such a pain now to make it to Q3, which was the first few rounds. Let’s just look at the positives and we come back in Canada and hopefully we do a strong one.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Having seen team-mate Max\u00a0Verstappen<\/a> recover from a first-lap spin to take fifth place (subject to a post-race stewards investigation<\/a>), Hadjar was desperate to know where his true pace would\u2019ve seen him finish in the Miami GP having made such a strong start.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly I’m itching to get back to it like right now,\u201d he said. \u201cI wish I was driving. I wish I knew what I could have done. It was a good start, so having to wait three weeks [until the Canadian GP] is a bit rough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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