Isack Hadjar’s fifth place at Silverstone gave Red Bull the only calm result inside a British Grand Prix that otherwise finished with a sharper internal question.
The FIA’s final classification put Hadjar fifth, 1.598s behind Charles Leclerc’s winning Ferrari, while Max Verstappen was classified 20th after his late Stowe crash triggered the Safety Car finish. It left Red Bull with two very different readings from the same 52-lap race.
Hadjar’s result changes Red Bull’s Silverstone read
Hadjar told Formula1.com afterwards that the car was “way better than in the Sprint”, a line that matters because Red Bull had looked exposed across the weekend’s faster sections.
The 10 points were not simply damage limitation. Liam Lawson’s sixth place for Racing Bulls and Arvid Lindblad’s seventh underlined how much the wider Red Bull stable extracted once the race settled into its final phase.
Verstappen’s crash, by contrast, turned a possible podium into another hard reset before Hungary. The official FIA classification confirmed Hadjar ahead of both Racing Bulls cars, with Lando Norris fourth and Lewis Hamilton third.
The timing is awkward. Silverstone was supposed to clarify Red Bull’s wet-weather and high-speed balance picture, not leave its lead car buried at the bottom of the order.
For a team still measuring its 2026 package against Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren, Hadjar’s drive was the useful evidence. Verstappen’s ending was the warning.
