Isaack Hadjar to stay at Red Bull for 2027 season to complete unchanged line-up

[p]The 21-year-old, who ‌stepped up to the championship-winning team ‌this year after an impressive debut season with ‌Racing Bulls, has scored points in 8 of ‌the 11 races he has taken part in, including a third-place finish in Monaco.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hadjar-isack/8SAk38Ui/"]Hadjar[/a], eighth in ‌the overall standings with 71 ⁠points, missed the ‌last three races with a wrist injury but is ​set to make his comeback at this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.[/p][p][b]"We're very ​excited to continue our journey with Isack,"[/b] said team principal Laurent Mekies in a statement.[/p][p]"Since ⁠joining us at ​the start of the year, he has been superb on and off track, especially considering this is only his second Formula 1 season, ‌which made extending his contract an easy decision."[/p][embed guid="828397c9-fd1e-4d55-bfd2-69001ce76b9c" url="https://x.com/redbullracing/status/2102687021470994726" social-type="twitter" /][p]Hadjar's contract extension comes after Red Bull agreed a new deal with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/verstappen-max/UV3mgeXB/"]Verstappen[/a] last month. The Dutchman is set to stay at the Milton Keynes-based outfit until the end of 2030.[/p][p]It also ended the possibility of a promotion for Racing Bulls drivers Arvid Lindblad, the only rookie on this year’s grid, and New Zealander Liam Lawson, who filled in for Hadjar during his time on the sidelines.[/p][p]The role of teammate to Verstappen ‌has been something of a poisoned chalice for a string of ​hopefuls.[/p][p]Hadjar, set to make his racing return in Azerbaijan, ‌at the start of this year became the Dutchman’s seventh different teammate since he joined Red Bull in 2016.[/p][p]Verstappen backed Red Bull’s move to keep the Frenchman.[/p][p][b]"It only made sense for the team to do what they did with ⁠announcing him and I think ⁠he definitely deserved that,"[/b] ‌he said.[/p]