Purple Bull’s Isack Hadjar earned essential “team-mate factors” following an “distinctive comeback” drive to 3rd on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, in response to F1 TV pundit Alex Brundle.
Returning to the cockpit after a wrist damage with a newly signed Purple Bull contract for 2027, Hadjar capitalised on a late lock-up from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri to safe a double podium for the Milton Keynes outfit alongside second-place finisher Max Verstappen.
Talking on F1 TV’s post-race broadcast, Brundle praised Hadjar’s tempo and willingness to comply with workforce orders when informed to stay in place behind his team-mate.
“This manner or that method, I feel Max would have ended up generously forward of Hadjar on the finish of the race,” Brundle defined. “And because it performed out, he in all probability would have handed him fairly rapidly when he was on the comfortable tyre.
“However Hadjar actually had an distinctive comeback at this time and has earned himself some good team-mate factors for taking part in the sport and he demonstrated wonderful tempo this weekend.
“If you wish to have a comeback from an damage with a brand new contract in your palms, that is the one to have, and he totally deserved the rostrum. Actually, as a pair of drivers, the most effective within the subject at this time.”
Isack Hadjar, Purple Bull Racing
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1996 Formulation 1 champion Damon Hill, who joined Brundle on the printed, added: “Unbelievable restoration from Isack Hadjar to bounce again after his damage and being away. They have been a powerful workforce. You may by no means low cost Purple Bull.
“They’re an aggressive attacking racing workforce who take probabilities. They’re all the time combating for issues, and so they’re unbelievable. It’s important to say they have been by so many various iterations of administration and goodness is aware of what, however they’re nonetheless there combating.”
Verstappen and Hadjar at the moment sit sixth and eighth within the drivers’ championship with 163 factors and 86 factors, respectively. In consequence, Purple Bull is fourth within the constructors’ standings with 263 factors, which incorporates the factors that Liam Lawson scored whereas stepping in for the injured Hadjar.
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