Hadjar furious after Singapore failures leave him without a qualifying time

Isack Hadjar said he was angry after mechanical problems disrupted his Saturday in Singapore: “I just want to drive.” A power-unit failure forced him to retire from the sprint after two laps. Later, a broken fourth gear prevented him from setting a lap in Grand Prix qualifying and eliminated him in Q1.

Hadjar said he wanted to make run after run on new tyres, but the problems left him unable to do so. A battery failure had dropped him to fifth late in the race at Sepang the previous weekend.

He also said the sprint format made it difficult to work on the car: there was only one practice session, and parc fermé rules limited how much teams could change. Hadjar said the limited running made it hard to learn from the weekend.

His team-mate Max Verstappen, by contrast, won Saturday’s Singapore sprint from pole after also winning the Grand Prix at Sepang the previous weekend.