Isack Hadjar Salary 2026 After His Red Bull Promotion
Isack Hadjar earns a base salary of about $7.5m in 2026, his first season in the senior Red Bull team. The figure comes from a reported €6.6m deal and is at least seven times the $500k-1m he was paid as a Racing Bulls rookie.
Over 23 Grands Prix it comes to roughly $326k a race. The money is also tied to the seat, because reports of his deal put his pay at €4.2m ($4.8m) if he were ever moved back to Racing Bulls.
Reports the €6.6m Red Bull salary behind his $7.5m base, plus demotion and 2027 performance terms that remain unconfirmed.
Base Salary Earned in 2026$6.13m of $7.5m
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POTENTIAL INCOME
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CAREER EARNINGS
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What Bonuses Could Add for Hadjar
Bonuses could add around $2m in a strong season, which would take his potential income to $9.5m. He sits eighth in the standings on 105 points despite missing three races, as his 2026 season stats show, so the upside is there if he finishes the year well. He was third in Baku on September 26, behind George Russell and Max Verstappen, fifth at Sepang on October 4 and sixth at the United States Grand Prix on October 25.
Hadjar's Pay by the Month, Week, and Day
PER MONTH
$625k
PER WEEK
$144k
PER DAY
$21k
PER HOUR
$856
Hadjar’s $7.5m base breaks down to about $625k a month, $144k a week and $21k a day. With the $2m bonus scenario included, his monthly average climbs to $792k. These are even splits of his yearly pay for illustration only, and they don’t show how or when Red Bull actually pays him.
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Isack Hadjar's Contract With Red Bull Racing
Red Bull confirmed Hadjar’s promotion on December 2, 2025, moving him up from Racing Bulls to partner Max Verstappen and sending Yuki Tsunoda to a reserve role. The confirmed term covers the 2026 season and is worth about $7.5m in base salary.
Reports of the deal describe a one-plus-one agreement signed in November 2025. They say his pay drops to €4.2m ($4.8m) if he’s demoted to Racing Bulls and could be halved in 2027 if his results fall short. Neither clause has been confirmed or used, and nothing suggests his missed races have cost him any salary.
Is Hadjar Staying at Red Bull in 2027?
Red Bull confirmed on September 23, 2026 that Hadjar keeps his seat for 2027. Laurent Mekies later explained that the team had activated an option within an existing long-term relationship, so 2027 is the confirmed horizon for his race seat rather than the end of his ties to Red Bull. No new salary has been announced, and he should stay on around $7.5m unless the reported performance clause comes into play.
Hadjar has only two F1 seasons behind him, but they sit on very different pay scales. The stints below follow his move from a Racing Bulls rookie wage to a salary in Red Bull’s senior team. Those earnings sit behind his estimated $3.5m net worth.
2026
Red Bull
$7.5m
Promoted Beside Verstappen
▾
POTENTIAL INCOME
$9.5m
AGE
21
TEAM
Red Bull
The move up lifted his base to about $7.5m, with a $2m bonus scenario taking potential income to $9.5m. He has 105 points despite missing three races, already well clear of his rookie total.
SEASON
AGE
BASE SALARY
POTENTIAL INCOME
POINTS
POS
2026
21
$7.5m
$9.5m
105
8
2025
Racing Bulls
$500k-1m
Earning the Call-Up
▾
POTENTIAL INCOME
$500k-1m
AGE
20
TEAM
Racing Bulls
He arrived as the 2024 Formula 2 runner-up on a base of $500k-1m, the same band Arvid Lindblad is on today. His 51 points for Racing Bulls were enough for Red Bull to promote him for 2026.
Pre-season survey giving his 2025 Racing Bulls base as $500k-1m, with no bonus figure.
What Red Bull Saw in Hadjar
Red Bull moved Hadjar up after one season, and his pay reflects both the promotion and how much control the team kept over the deal.
One of Red Bull’s own. He’s been part of the Red Bull Junior Team since 2022, so the team promoted a driver it had developed itself.
Formula 2 pedigree. He finished runner-up in the 2024 Formula 2 championship, the season before his F1 debut.
A rookie year that counted. His 51 points for Racing Bulls in 2025 earned him the Red Bull seat as Yuki Tsunoda moved to a reserve role.
Scoring at the top team. His 105 points put him eighth in the 2026 standings, even after missing three races.
A controlled cost. Red Bull held the 2027 option itself, and at $7.5m he costs about a ninth of Verstappen’s base.
Hadjar's Salary Next to Verstappen's
Hadjar’s $7.5m base is $62.5m short of Max Verstappen’s $70m, and with bonus scenarios included it’s $9.5m against $90m. The points tell a closer story. Hadjar has 105 to Verstappen’s 236, more than two fifths of his teammate’s total for roughly a ninth of the base pay, despite missing three races.
Red Bull pays Isack Hadjar a base salary of about $7.5m in 2026, converted from a reported €6.6m deal. A strong season could add around $2m in bonuses and lift his potential income to $9.5m. It’s a huge step up from his rookie year at Racing Bulls, when he earned $500k-1m.
Isack Hadjar makes about $625k a month from his $7.5m Red Bull base salary in 2026, which is roughly $21k a day. With the $2m bonus scenario included, his monthly average climbs to $792k.
These are even splits of his yearly pay for illustration, and they don’t show how or when Red Bull actually pays him.
Isack Hadjar’s Red Bull Racing contract covers the 2026 season at a base salary of about $7.5m, and the team activated an option in September 2026 to keep him for 2027. Reports also describe a lower €4.2m ($4.8m) rate if he were moved back to Racing Bulls, although that clause has never been confirmed or used.
Isack Hadjar is under contract with Red Bull until at least the end of 2027. The team confirmed that extra season on September 23, 2026 after taking up an option. Red Bull describes its relationship with him as long-term, so 2027 marks his confirmed race seat rather than a fixed end to his time with the team.
Max Verstappen earns far more than Isack Hadjar, with a $70m base salary against Hadjar’s $7.5m at Red Bull in 2026. Bonus scenarios stretch that to $90m and $9.5m.
The points gap is narrower, because Hadjar has 105 to Verstappen’s 236 despite missing three races, which is more than two fifths of his teammate’s total.
