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Promoted straight into the seat alongside Max Verstappen for his first full season, Isack Hadjar sits eighth in the drivers' championship at the summer break — outscoring more experienced midfield rivals and doing it in one of the grid's least forgiving cars to learn in.
Eleven rounds into Formula 1's new regulations, Max Verstappen sits sixth in the drivers' championship and Red Bull fourth among constructors, 202 points behind Mercedes — a scale of deficit that has turned 2026 into a rebuilding season rather than a title defence.
George Russell won a tightly fought Australian Grand Prix to open Formula 1's biggest regulation reset in a decade, heading home teammate Kimi Antonelli as Mercedes took an immediate one-two at Albert Park.
Formula 1 enters 2026 with its most sweeping regulation change since the turbo-hybrid era began: near-50/50 hybrid power units, full-time active aerodynamics, and smaller, lighter cars — a reset that immediately reshuffled the competitive order once racing began.