Formula 1 is a fast -moving business. Fushing for this binary? At the start of the season in Melbourne, Rookie Isack Hadjar howled like a castle dog after a faux pas in the formation round and conceded a ruffle of Red Bull chief Helmut Marko. Two Grands Prix and two strong ideas later rave Marko in the highest tones of Hadjar.
Racing Bulls-Greenhorn Isack Hadjar was the first World Cup points of his young Formula 1 career at the Grand Prix of Japan.
Liam Lawson, which was degraded by Red Bull in the second car of the Red Bull junior team, had a firm grip on the Frenchman in the country of the rising sun.
At the Grand Prix of Bahrain (qualifying on Saturday, 6 p.m., live on RTL+) seems to continue. In the 2nd free training on Friday, Hadjar raced to a strong sixth place, was even faster than world champion Max Verstappen in Red Bull and distant Lawson (P12) by almost half a second.
Chief advisor and critic Helmut Marko praised the rookie at “Sky” in the highest tones. “Hadjar is the surprise. He did the least test kilometer with Formula 1 cars and still drives with Antonelli and the like,” enthused the eminence of the bulls. The racing bulls pilot was only eleven thousands slower than Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli on Friday.
Hadjar is “calm and always there,” says Marko for him already: “There is a very big one.”
Formula 1: Hadjar tears from Melbourne have long since dried
The Austrian had sounded differently at the start of the season. During his debut, Hadjar had thrown away the car in the rain of Melbourne in the formation round, shouted bitter tears in the paddock after the Fauxpas, Lewis Hamilton’s father Anthony comforted himself.
Marko then cunning from a “tearful show” that his protégé Down under offered and relentlessly judged the “ORF”: “That was a bit embarrassing.”
The tears have long since dried, Hadjar has caught up and the wind turned.