红牛确认哈贾尔持有长期合同
红牛车队负责人洛朗·梅基斯确认，伊萨克·哈贾尔与车队签有“长期合同”，尽管这位车手本人对此感到困惑。周三宣布哈贾尔已被红牛留用至2027年，这意味着他将作为四届世界冠军马克斯·维斯塔潘的队友开启第二个赛季。
红牛确认伊萨克·哈贾尔持有“长期”F1合同
伊萨克·哈贾尔的续约本周由红牛宣布
红牛车队负责人洛朗·梅基斯确认，伊萨克·哈贾尔确实与车队签有“长期合同”，尽管这位车手本人对此感到困惑。
周三宣布哈贾尔已被红牛留用至2027年，这意味着他将作为四届世界冠军马克斯·维斯塔潘的队友开启第二个赛季。
此前哈贾尔在2025年于姊妹车队小红牛完成了自己的新秀赛季，但凭借在赞德沃特登上领奖台的出色表现，他获得了2026年晋升至主队的资格。
他最初仅被宣布参加本赛季，2027年也是如此，因此当被要求澄清其新合同期限时，这位21岁的车手声称“我不知道”。
当此事在本周末的阿塞拜疆大奖赛上被转述给梅基斯时，这位法国人表示：“伊萨克已经在红牛待了很长时间。”
“这意味着，是的，我们与他签有非常长期的合同，作为他参与我们青训项目的一部分。我们已经激活了选项，确保他2027年的席位。”
哈贾尔的表现无疑优于他的前任角田裕毅，后者在2025年锦标赛中排名第17位，加入了在维斯塔潘身边表现挣扎的长长车手名单。
这位二年级车手在2026年锦标赛中排名第八，积71分，尽管因伤缺席了最近三场大奖赛，并曾在六月摩纳哥站取得职业生涯第二个领奖台。
“这真的很容易，”梅基斯谈到续约哈贾尔的决定时说。“我们在赛季中多次讨论过，他在今年上半年表现得非常非常强劲。”
“首先是他的自然速度，然后是他融入团队的方式。在最初的几周里，他很快就搬到了英国，几乎每隔一周就来米尔顿凯恩斯与我们在一起，然后同样重要的是，他在比赛中的进步方式。”
“我们真的看到他在几乎每个比赛周末都做得更好一些，因此这是一个非常非常容易做出的决定。”
现在轮到哈贾尔继续缩小与维斯塔潘的差距，后者在今年排位赛对决中以12比3领先队友，同时拥有145分。
然而，如果他未能做到这一点，并且这位法国人在2027年表现不佳，那么仍然没有什么能阻止红牛为2028年考虑其他选择。
据了解，哈贾尔和维斯塔潘，以及小红牛的阿尔维德·林德布拉德和利亚姆·劳森，均持有红牛合同，可随时调动。
“我们期望他做的是继续进步，”梅基斯补充道。“所以我们在赛季前半段所看到的，他提升了自己的速度，不仅是技术反馈，不仅是成熟度，不仅是融入程度，还在提升速度，正如他在赛季前半段所做的那样。”
“这就是我们希望他在今年下半年和明年继续做的事情。”
“如果他做到了，是的，当然，他会非常接近马克斯。所以这两件事是相辅相成的。”
英文原文
Red Bull confirms that Isack Hadjar is on a 'long-term' F1 contract
Isack Hadjar's contract renewal was announced this week by Red Bull
Red Bull boss Laurent Mekies confirmed that Isack Hadjar does have a ‘long-term contract’ with the team despite confusion from his driver.
On Wednesday it was announced that Hadjar has been retained by Red Bull for 2027, meaning he will start a second season as team-mate to four-time world champion Max Verstappen.
It comes after Hadjar completed his rookie campaign at sister squad Racing Bulls in 2025, but a stellar year with a podium at Zandvoort earned him a promotion to the main team for 2026.
He was initially only announced for this season with that also being the case for 2027, so when asked to clarify the length of his new contract, the 21-year-old claimed “I don’t know”.
When that was therefore put to Mekies at this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the Frenchman said: “Isack has been with Red Bull for a very long time.
“That means that yes, we have a very long time contract with him as part of him being part of our junior programme. We have activated our options to secure him for 2027.”
Hadjar has certainly fared better than his predecessor Yuki Tsunoda, who added to a long list of drivers to have struggled alongside Verstappen after finishing 17th in the 2025 standings.
The sophomore is eighth in the 2026 championship with 71 points despite missing the last three grands prix through injury, having also taken a second career podium at Monaco in June.
“It was really easy,” said Mekies of the decision to renew Hadjar’s contract. “We discussed it a few times here through the season, he has done a very, very strong first part of the year.
“First with his natural speed, then with the way he has integrated with the team. Very quickly in the early weeks he moved to the UK, was pretty much every other week with us in Milton Keynes and then not less importantly, the way he has progressed through the races.
“We have really seen him doing something a bit better pretty much every race weekend and therefore it was a very, very easy decision to make.”
It is now up to Hadjar to continue closing the gap to Verstappen, who holds a 12-3 advantage over his team-mate in their qualifying head-to-head this year, while also boasting 145 points.
Should he not do that, however, and the Frenchman fails to deliver in 2027, then there would still be nothing stopping Red Bull from looking at other options for 2028.
It is understood that Hadjar and Verstappen, plus Racing Bulls duo Arvid Lindblad and Liam Lawson, are all under Red Bull contracts and free to move about at any time.
“What we expect him to do is to continue to progress,” added Mekies. “So what we have seen in that first part of the season, him improving his speed, not only the technical feedback, not only the maturity, not only his integration, improving his speed as he has been doing in the first part of the season.
“That's what we would like him to continue doing through the second part of the year and through next year.
“If he does that, yes, of course, he is going to be very close to Max. So both these things go together.”
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