FROM DUBAI TO VERSTAPPEN'S TEAMMATE: THE METEORIC RISE OF ISACK HADJAR

The 21-year-old driver of Arab origin has had an impressive first season in Formula 1

- BY JAYDIP SENGUPTA

Isack Hadjar walks down the pitlane in Lusail, Qatar.

(AFP)

It has been a year of rookies in Formula 1, for not since 2010 have six young guns taken the wheel in the same season. While Jack Doohan’s stint with Alpine did not last long, being replaced by Franco Colapinto after just six races, the other five — Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, Haas’ Ollie Bearman, Red Bull’s Liam Lawson, Sauber’s Gabriel Bor-toleto and the man of the moment, Racing Bull’s French-Algerian driver Isack Hadjar — have delivered with varying degrees of success.