Liam Lawson offers Isack Hadjar crucial Red Bull promotion advice

Liam Lawson has offered advice to Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar, should he be handed a promotion to Red Bull next season. 

Hadjar has been widely linked to Yuki Tsunoda's seat at the Milton Keynes-based outfit for 2026, which would see the French-Algerian partner Max Verstappen in just his second F1 campaign. 

Since his embarrassing formation lap crash in the season-opening Australian GP, Hadjar has impressed both Red Bull's senior figures and the F1 paddock. 

He has been consistently quick in qualifying and regularly in the points, although driving for Red Bull is a very different challenge. Lawson started the season alongside Verstappen at the Austrian outfit, but was demoted to the sister team after just two races. 

While the New Zealander believes not much can be taken from his time at Red Bull, he has still outlined areas Hadjar should focus on if he is promoted at the end of the year.

Asked if he has any advice for Hadjar should he be promoted to Red Bull, Lawson said: "Honestly, I think from the outside, obviously, we all look in and see how it's a very tough place to be. For me, it's hard to, I guess, look back on and have a proper comparison, just because it was just the two races. 

"But I think just to prepare well. I think for me, I look back and I prepared, I tried to do everything I could. Obviously, we can always do things better and look back on that. 

"But I would honestly just say, ignore everything that's really being said and and I think it's being maybe over talked about, maybe how difficult it is and stuff like this. 

"At the end of the day, we're all racing drivers. We all have to have enough self-confidence to be in the sport in the first place. We don't come here thinking that other people are better than us. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. 

"So I think to just have faith in yourself. He's done a good job this year, and I think he needs to just if that's the case, just focus on the job and focus on preparing the best he can and not listening to everything that's said about what it's going to be like, because at the end of the day, nobody actually knows, only the guys that have done it."