After the Netherlands Grand Prix 2025 in Zandvoort, a scene ensured a lot of laughter at Racing Bulls: Isack Hadjar was particularly careful with his first Formula 1 cup, but the trophy broke the team photos-it broke on the thin middle part.
Pictures show the Racing Bulls driver with his team in the pit lane how Hadjar puts the upper part of his trophy up to cheer. Team boss Alan Permane and team manager Peter Bayer grin in the background.
Hadjar himself takes it with humor. He wrote on social networks: “I am happy with my half cup!”
Now the cup manufacturer has to get replacement
The cup manufacturers probably see it differently: It is a handicraft made by Royal Delft, which was elaborately painted live in the Formula 1 driver camp at the weekend-in a historical design.
“The design goes back to 1939,” explains former Formula 1 driver Jan Lammers, now sports director of the Netherlands Grand Prix. “The cup form was developed by Studio Piet Boon and we can be more than proud of the finished trophies.”
That is why Royal Delft is already in contact with Racing Bulls to ensure replacement. Because according to information from Motorsport.com Netherlands, a sister platform from formel1.de and Motorsport-total.com at Motorsport Network, the manufacturer has an additional trophy in stock – so far unpolaned. It should be painted for Hadjar afterwards.
The value of the cup is unknown. But for Hadjar, the emotional value should be particularly great: in his only 15th Formula 1 race, it achieved the first podium result, as the latest Formula 1 driver from France and as a second rookie this year after Andrea Kimi Antonelli in Canada.
Memories of Hungary 2023 are awake
However, Hadjar is not the first Formula 1 driver whose trophy broke after the handover: In 2023, similar things occurred in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Hungaroring.
At that time, McLaren driver Lando Norris had hit his sparkling wine bottle onto the podium and thus replaced the also handmade winner trophy by Red Bull driver Max Verstappen. The manufacturer then produced a replacement cup.
Another cup malheur in 1989 Nigel Mansell met in his debut as a Ferrari driver: he won the Formula 1 race in Rio de Janeiro-and then cut his hand on the winning trophy and bleed.