Isack Hadjar Secures First Formula One Podium After Gasly's Disqualification

Isack Hadjar has been promoted to the podium and Liam Lawson’s season has been handed fresh momentum after Pierre Gasly’s disqualification was upheld, reshaping the heart of the midfield battles.

Gasly’s exclusion elevates Red Bull’s Hadjar to third, securing his first Formula One podium since stepping up from sister team Racing Bulls at the start of the year. A breakthrough result, and one that underlines why Red Bull moved him into the senior seat in the first place.

The reshuffle doesn’t stop there. McLaren’s Oscar Piastri climbs from fifth to fourth, his race-long damage limitation suddenly looking a lot more valuable after he had served an in-race penalty that Gasly escaped at the time.

The real winners, though, sit in Faenza.

Racing Bulls, who initially watched a strong haul of points get sliced apart by Gasly’s short-lived appeal, now see their original gains restored. Lawson’s fifth place, briefly downgraded to sixth, is back on the books and stands as his best result of the season. Those two extra points matter. His tally jumps from 49 to 51, while Gasly’s drops from 44 to 35, a nine-point swing in a tight fight to finish ninth in the drivers’ standings – the honour of being the best of the rest outside the sport’s established top four teams.

It changes the mood inside the Racing Bulls garage. Lawson’s upward curve is now reflected on the table, not just on the timing screens.

Arvid Lindblad benefits as well. The youngster moves up from seventh to sixth, nudging Racing Bulls 14 points clear of Alpine in the scrap for fifth in the constructors’ championship. That position is more than a line on a graphic; it shapes budgets, leverage, and the way a team can plan its future.

All of it rolls into a crucial weekend.

Both Racing Bulls and Alpine head to Monza with a chance to tilt that constructors’ fight in their favour at Formula One’s Italian Grand Prix. The Temple of Speed will offer slipstreams, chaos, and opportunity.

Lawson, though, will be watching that particular battle from a different garage. Promoted to Red Bull to stand in for the injured Hadjar, he won’t be able to add to Racing Bulls’ total. His points stay with Faenza, his immediate future lies in the front-running car, and the constructors’ duel takes on a sharper edge without one of Racing Bulls’ main scorers on the grid for them.

The numbers are clear. The implications, for both Lawson and his former team, could define how this season is remembered.