#6 · Red Bull
Isack Hadjar
French-Algerian Red Bull junior who debuted at Racing Bulls in 2025 and was promoted to the senior Red Bull seat for 2026 alongside Verstappen.
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Race wins
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Podiums
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Pole positions
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Championships
Why he matters
Hadjar is the latest answer to “who can drive the second Red Bull?” — a seat that has chewed through Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Sergio Pérez, and Liam Lawson over the last seven years. Red Bull moved him up after a strong rookie season at Racing Bulls in 2025, where he scored two podiums in a midfield car.
How he drives
He’s a robust qualifier and very assertive in midfield wheel-to-wheel — known in the junior categories for opportunistic overtaking. The Red Bull car’s notoriously narrow setup window will test him; even Verstappen has called recent generations “very difficult to drive at the limit.”
Watch for
- Saturdays — the gap to Verstappen in qualifying is the metric to watch all year.
- His race starts — Hadjar is consistently strong off the line.
- The team’s body language. Red Bull’s track record with second drivers is the long-running subplot of 2026.