Isack Hadjar's Singapore weekend was a rolling catastrophe of mechanical failures that reduced Red Bull's rookie to a spectator in his own car. The Frenchman suffered engine gremlins in FP1, had his sprint qualifying lap deleted for track limits while already nine-tenths off Verstappen, then retired from the sprint on lap three when his power unit failed — and the car caught fire during recovery. Main qualifying brought a broken fourth gear that left him with no time set, compounded by marshals calling him to the weighbridge mid-breakdown. "I could have stayed back in Paris, it would have been the same," Hadjar said. He salvaged a single point Sunday, climbing from the pitlane to tenth by passing Gasly late, but reported more engine trouble along the way. The 22-year-old has been snakebit since Malaysia and knows one point won't cut it when Red Bull evaluates him for 2027. Austin is his reset — if the RB22 cooperates.
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