Isack Hadjar

Red Bull Racing · P8 · 86 p

The Red Bull Racing car currently sits in the upper half (0.37 s/lap off the fastest car in race pace). Hadjar qualifies closer to the front than the races show (quali 0.66, race 0.85 s/lap). The trend is upward: over the last five races the race-pace gap has shrunk by 0.67 s/lap. In wheel-to-wheel combat Hadjar falls short of the car's potential: the driver share of attack is -0.31 s/lap, a bigger pace advantage than the team-mate's is needed to get by.

Hadjar and Verstappen have been team-mates in 13 of 16 races; the comparison below covers those races. In qualifying Verstappen leads the intra-team qualifying battle 9–3, by 0.119 s/lap on average in Verstappen's favour. In races where both were classified: 7–0 to Verstappen, and in race pace Verstappen is 0.370 s/lap quicker over the season. Current form (weighted to recent races) gives Verstappen an edge of 0.55 s/lap.