Red Bull warned off Isack Hadjar decision that’s ‘not necessary’ despite being ‘hundred times better’ than Yuki Tsunoda

Isack Hadjar has now scored more points during the first eight rounds of the Racing Bulls driver’s rookie F1 season than Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson have combined.

Superb team play by Lawson as Racing Bulls gamed F1’s two-stop rule at the Monaco Grand Prix saw Hadjar secure his best finish in the pinnacle of motorsport to date. The 20-year-old achieved a sixth-place finish on the streets of the Principality to reach 15 points for the year.

Lawson also earned his first points of the 2025 F1 season in the Monaco GP as the 23-year-old came home in eighth for four points. Tsunoda failed to score a point with Red Bull in the Monaco GP to remain on 10 for the term so far, of which he penned three with Racing Bulls.

Red Bull demoted Lawson back to Racing Bulls in March after failing to earn a point over his two rounds with the team from Milton Keynes. But Tsunoda now has an uncertain future at Red Bull, too, having failed to turn his promise into points with a best finish of P9 in Bahrain.

Red Bull warned off promoting Isack Hadjar to replace Yuki Tsunoda in the 2025 F1 season

Tsunoda only has a contract with Red Bull for the 2025 season and is not showing enough to suggest he will help Max Verstappen retain the F1 drivers’ championship or help the team to win back the constructors’ title. Red Bull trail McLaren by 176 points after only eight rounds.

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Yet Ruud Dimmers has urged Red Bull against promoting Hadjar to replace Tsunoda too early as it is ‘not necessary’ for the 20-year-old just yet. Dimmers feels the Frenchman must refine his trade first, even if Hadjar is an upgrade on Red Bull’s recent stars, including Sergio Perez.

Dimmers has told RacingNews365: “It won’t be for this year, and that’s not necessary. Just let him learn. If he keeps doing what he’s doing now, he’ll go to Red Bull. That might be for next year. But just let him mature this year.

“He’ll still make his mistakes, you can see that. But that’s also the learning curve of a rookie. I like Hadjar a hundred times better than a Perez, a Lawson or a Yuki. He’s got guts. If he gets the chance, he’ll throw the car in somewhere.”

Isack Hadjar bounced back from calling himself ‘an idiot’ to Helmut Marko’s dismay for a career-best result in Monaco

Red Bull see Hadjar as an option to replace Tsunoda for 2026 in case the 25-year-old cannot improve his race results. The Japanese driver has so far only finished three of his six Grands Prix with Red Bull in the points, with his P9 finish in Bahrain plus P10 in Miami and at Imola.

Hadjar, on the other hand, has now scored points in four of his eight Grands Prix to date and all four of those instances have come since Lawson and Tsunoda swapped seats. He sealed P8 in Japan, P10 in Saudi Arabia, P9 at Imola and a career-best to date of P6 in Monte Carlo.

But Red Bull motorsport adviser Helmut Marko felt Hadjar showed a ‘lack of intelligence’ in Monaco after the Parisian called himself ‘an idiot’ for crashing twice in FP2. He brushed the barriers at the Nouvelle chicane and at Sainte Devote, which broke his left rear suspension.