Hadjar drove from pit lane to 10th in Singapore Grand Prix
NXTbets Pro | Published On: October 14, 2026
Hadjar salvaged points
Isack Hadjar turned a pit-lane start into 10th place in the Singapore Grand Prix and finished with one point after a weekend filled with technical problems. Red Bull sent him to the pit lane after breaking parc fermé and fitting a new power unit. The trouble started in Sprint Qualifying, where Hadjar had a power unit problem and then lost his only SQ3 lap because of a track-limits deletion. That left him fighting from behind before the Sprint even began. His Sprint ended on lap 3 when another power unit failure forced him out, and Hadjar said the car caught fire during the race. A gearbox problem then kept him from setting a qualifying lap time. The sequence of failures disrupted Hadjar’s weekend, and Red Bull changed the car before the race.
Hadjar charged forward
Hadjar still made the most of the race once it started. He drove from the pit lane through the field and kept gaining ground late, with Pierre Gasly among the drivers he passed. One of those moves came on lap 58, part of a late push that carried Hadjar into the top 10 by the finish. He said his pace on the soft tires was strong once he could push flat-out, and that speed gave him a chance to recover after the earlier setbacks. The result did more than limit the damage from the weekend. It showed how much ground he could make up even after missing qualifying and starting from the pit lane. The drive also underlined how much the race pace remained there when the car was running properly. Hadjar had no room to waste after the technical issues, but he kept moving forward and found enough speed to reach the points.
Mekies backed Hadjar
Laurent Mekies apologized for Red Bull’s reliability problems and said, “we owe him one.” He said Hadjar showed strong pace in traffic and might have been able to fight near the front if the weekend had gone differently. That view matched the way Hadjar’s race unfolded, with the driver recovering from the pit lane and still finding enough pace to press late. After the setbacks in Malaysia and Singapore, Hadjar said he wanted a cleaner weekend at the United States Grand Prix in Austin so he could fight for podiums. He also said Red Bull needed to understand what went wrong before Austin. For him, the issue is simple. The speed is there when the car behaves. The challenge now is to get through a full weekend without the failures that took over in Singapore and left him chasing damage control instead of a better result.
