“To have Max as a group mate, I’d be taught a lot,” says Isack Hadjar as he insists he’s prepared for second Purple Bull seat.
Some of the astonishing information this yr is that Purple Bull is at the moment fourth within the standings on 162 factors… and that Max Verstappen has scored 155 of them.
Ignoring the plights of the varied drivers that got here earlier than, and the shoddy method wherein Liam Lawson was handled, it’s clear that, for no matter purpose, Yuki Tsunoda shouldn’t be faring any higher.
Consequently, whereas Helmut Marko has stated that the Japanese is secure for the rest of the season, there may be rising hypothesis that, in his rookie season, Isack Hadjar could also be handed the poisoned chalice that’s the second seat at Purple Bull.
“No…” he replies when requested if he’s prepared for the transfer on the Past The Grid podcast, “however I am going to take it. I am a fighter, in spite of everything.
“What drives me is combating towards the most effective on the planet,” he added. “To have Max as a group mate, I’d be taught a lot.
“I feel he is a really chill man,” he continued. “He will get on with everybody so long as issues are effective on observe. He is a cool man.
“The pure trajectory as a Purple Bull Junior driver is to finish up at Purple Bull, proper?” stated the French-Algerian, inflicting one to replicate on these whose careers faltered on making the transfer, even in these instances lengthy, lengthy earlier than the Dutchman.
For now nevertheless, Hadjar insists is comfortable to proceed the place he’s.
“I am so pleased with my group. I am simply studying a lot each weekend,” he stated. “I simply wish to hold doing that. Simply get pleasure from it. Benefit from the fights with the opposite guys, and do not disappoint myself.”
