Red Bull Racing star Isack Hadjar: Sad that the F1 season is coming to an end

The Formula 1 World Championship calendar is getting longer and longer, and the effects of the heavy workload that comes with it are particularly noticeable towards the end of the season. As a result, several Grand Prix stars have already had to cancel various media engagements due to illness.

The young world champion Kimi Antonelli is also among this group. The Mercedes star was forced to pull out at the start of the Mexican Grand Prix weekend due to a viral infection – before going on to become the youngest world champion in the sport’s history by finishing third on Sunday.

Isack Hadjar was already grappling with very different concerns by the middle of the season. The Red Bull Racing star injured his left wrist whilst training in the pits with a sandbag. The fracture on the outside of his wrist resulted in a long enforced break: as a result, the 22-year-old missed both the race at Zandvoort and the GPs at Monza and Madrid. He therefore only made his return in Baku after the summer break.

Isack Hadjar: A blessing in disguise

And because the war in the Middle East had meant that Formula 1 was unable to hold the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in April as planned, this was already the second enforced break lasting several weeks that Hadjar had taken this year. No wonder, he lamented at Interlagos: “First, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were cancelled in April. Then I had a two-month break in the summer, and now I feel I still have plenty of energy left.”

“That’s why it makes me a bit sad that we’re already heading towards the end. I feel as though I could carry on for a long time yet this year,” asserted the Frenchman, who, however, did not want to confirm that the wrist injury he sustained in the summer had halted his momentum. “No, because I was really lucky with the timing – the three races I missed were tricky,” he said, dismissing the question.

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That’s why Isack Hadjar is looking forward to next year with confidence

He returned just as the Red Bull Racing team was able to take a step forward with the RB22. “I’m proud of the lads, who’ve made great progress. In Melbourne we were still a second off the top, and that was still the case at the third race in Japan. And now the car is capable of winning and we’re fighting for podium places. So I couldn’t be prouder. The way we’ve improved the car also makes me feel confident about next season,” said Hadjar, praising his team.