Red Bull Forced Into Another Driver Change as Isack Hadjar Ruled Out of Italian GP

<p>The Red Bull Racing Formula One team has confirmed that Isack Hadjar will miss this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix due to a wrist injury he suffered during the summer break. The 21-year-old driver also missed the Dutch Grand Prix for the same reason.</p><p>As a result, Red Bull will continue with the driver lineup it had in Zanvoort. Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson will take Hadjar’s seat, while Red Bull reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda will move up to Racing Bulls, replacing Lawson..</p><p>This took place originally at Zandvoort, where both Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda impressed with their performances. Lawson finished the 72-lap Dutch Grand Prix in seventh, while Tsunoda secured P11, narrowly missing out on a point. The Japanese driver achieved this result despite racing the new 2026 F1 car for the first time, which is significantly different to drive compared with the ground-effect cars he raced previously.</p><p>Red Bull Racing made the following statement:</p><p>“Liam will drive alongside Max at the Italian Grand Prix in Monza, while Isack continues to make encouraging progress following the wrist injury sustained during the summer break.</p><p>“The Team is closely monitoring his rehabilitation and will take no unnecessary risks with his return to competition and wishes him a speedy recovery.”</p><blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ahead of the weekend in Monza, an update from the Team <img alt="&#x00d83d;&#x00dc99;" src="https://media.zenfs.com/en/motorbiscuit_articles_333/8ca14ea1543fd032d3e1e27053333d49.png" data-uuid="a66cf61f-3fe7-36d9-ae1c-c627e3aaa6a4"><br><br>Keep pushing, Isack <img alt="&#x00d83e;&#x00dd1d;" src="https://media.zenfs.com/en/motorbiscuit_articles_333/946eee3a93e860fefa93d4b165d234e4.png" data-uuid="3a2e1aec-d38f-32bf-840c-583e65990eb6"><a href="https://x.com/hashtag/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#F1</a> || <a href="https://x.com/hashtag/ItalianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ItalianGP</a><img alt="&#x00d83c;&#x00ddee;&#x00d83c;&#x00ddf9;" src="https://media.zenfs.com/en/motorbiscuit_articles_333/d2fa099b2e2853ed4c04c91a5b8d85e9.png" data-uuid="de37e73a-a705-373e-9780-72f220215675"><a href="https://t.co/fWKRAPGcis">pic.twitter.com/fWKRAPGcis</a></p>— Oracle Red Bull Racing (@redbullracing) <a href="https://x.com/redbullracing/status/2095149983196393680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2026</a></blockquote><p><em><a href="https://www.motorbiscuit.com/isack-hadjar-fractured-his-wrist-punching-a-heavy-bag-forcing-him-to-miss-the-dutch-gp/">Motorbiscuit</a></em> reported that Hadjar’s injury took place during a boxing session. The Red Bull driver includes boxing in his training. Things went wrong for the driver as he was punching a bag full of sand, according to Sky Sports F1’s Craig Slater, who said:</p><p>“He includes boxing as part of his training; he did boxing as a child growing up, and he has fractured his wrist punching a heavy bag in the gym. A bag filled with sand.</p><p>“So he’s out this weekend. He will be replaced by Liam Lawson. This is a really strange one.”</p>