Liam Lawson’s gradual begin to the 2025 Formulation 1 season has price him his seat at Crimson Bull.
In line with a number of experiences, Crimson Bull has made a driver swap simply two race weekends into the season, with Yuki Tsunoda shifting to Crimson Bull forward of the Japanese Grand Prix. Lawson will take Tsunoda’s spot at Visa Money App Racing Bulls.
Each Canal+ F1 and Erik van Haren at De Telegraaf are reporting that the crew has made the choice, with an official announcement coming later this week. SB Nation has not independently confirmed these experiences.
Lawson earned the spot alongside Max Verstappen final winter, when the crew determined to half methods with Sergio Pérez after a lackluster 2024 marketing campaign. Regardless of beginning the season scorching Pérez scored simply 49 factors after the primary six race weekends, and Crimson Bull tumbled to 3rd within the Constructors’ Championship.
Lawson has but to advance out of Q1 at both the Australian Grand Prix or the Chinese language Grand Prix, and certified in P20 for each the F1 Dash race and the Chinese language Grand Prix in Shanghai. Following his tough weekend on the Chinese language Grand Prix, hypothesis grew that Crimson Bull would make such a transfer.
Whereas Workforce Principal Christian Horner brushed apart these rumblings as paddock hypothesis, plainly now that hypothesis has come true.
