Hadjar cleared to return for Red Bull in Baku
Isack Hadjar will race for Red Bull at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku after three races out with a wrist injury.
Red Bull said the 21-year-old Frenchman has made a full recovery and will take his seat back for the weekend of 24-26 September, according to BBC. He replaces Liam Lawson, who returns to Racing Bulls, Red Bull's junior team where young drivers gain race miles.
Hadjar hurt his wrist while boxing. The injury kept him out of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and the Madrid race.
Lawson, 24, from New Zealand, stood in for all three. He finished seventh at Zandvoort and sixth in Madrid, either side of a point-less 14th at Monza. In Formula 1 only the top 10 score points, so those two results kept solid points coming in during Hadjar's absence.
Hadjar sits eighth in the drivers' standings, the season-long points table, on 71 points. He slots straight back in alongside Max Verstappen, the four-time world champion, as Red Bull's race pairing.
For fans, this means Baku will show where that partnership has got to. Three races is a long time to be out of the car. Rhythm matters. So does confidence on the brakes.
Baku is a street circuit, all walls and narrow exits. It punishes small errors. Coming back there is a proper test of a wrist and of race sharpness, and Red Bull clearly believes Hadjar is ready for it.
