Overview

• The Racing Bulls rookie finished third at Zandvoort after Lando Norris retired late, becoming the youngest French podium finisher and delivering the team’s first podium since 2021.
• Racing Bulls and Red Bull leaders said there was no instruction to hold position behind Max Verstappen, adding Hadjar would have been allowed to attack if he had the pace.
• Team boss Laurent Mekies lauded Hadjar’s qualifying P4 and error-free race but stressed the group will evaluate 2026 seats over the remaining nine races.
• McLaren attributed Norris’s retirement to a failure on the chassis side, and the driver dismissed the idea that such a DNF was inevitable given the team’s reliability.
• Red Bull explained Yuki Tsunoda’s ninth place was limited by a post-stop throttle/map glitch that left him stuck on an unfriendly pedal map.