Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko has confirmed Max Verstappen disagreed with Red Bull swapping Liam Lawson for Racing Bulls’ Yuki Tsunoda just two rounds into the 2025 Formula 1 season. Red Bull made the call after Lawson failed to perform at both Albert Park and Shanghai, with him placing last in both qualifying sessions at
Christian Klien, Scott Speed, Sebastien Bourdais, Daniil Kvyat (twice), Pierre Gasly, Nyck de Vries, Daniel Ricciardo – the list of drivers being replaced mid-season by Red Bull or its sister team is lengthy. As of this week, Liam Lawson joins that group and, in a way, he’s even a record-breaker: no Red Bull-contracted driver has
Pre-season, those amenable to a wager would have thought the odds on Jack Doohan being fired before Liam Lawson insufficiently lucrative to justify placing a bet. It seemed to be a dead cert, what with Alpine lining up Franco Colapinto as a ‘test and reserve driver’ within a month of Doohan’s low-key first race outing
Pre-season, those amenable to a wager would have thought the odds on Jack Doohan being fired before Liam Lawson insufficiently lucrative to justify placing a bet. It seemed to be a dead cert, what with Alpine lining up Franco Colapinto as a ‘test and reserve driver’ within a month of Doohan’s low-key first race outing
Before the 2025 Formula 1 campaign actually began, figuring out the pecking order in the midfield based on pre-season testing was tricky, with the data pointing to a close fight. Fast-forward two weeks, and Racing Bulls has consistently qualified top of the midfield – Yuki Tsunoda fifth in Melbourne, then Isack Hadjar up to seventh
The 2025 Formula 1 season may only be two races old, but it has not been short on either on-track storylines or off-track intrigue — with some of those narratives centring around the Mercedes team. Motorsport.com’s Roberto Chinchero sat down with its team principal, Toto Wolff, over the Chinese Grand Prix, to discuss the latest developments within
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff believes the series would look ‘silly and erratic’ if it were to introduce V10 engines before 2031 and reduce the planned five-year period for the 2026 hybrids. The return of V10 power units has been placed on the agenda by FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem, with various options under
Is it fair to Liam Lawson to drop him after just two races into the season? No, it’s probably not. After all, you can’t help but feel he hasn’t been given a chance to learn and even try to improve. At least giving him a race at Suzuka, a track he knows and likes, would’ve
If you are looking for a short answer on why Helmut Marko has played such an influential role in the careers of dozens of drivers, it could be: Jochen Rindt. The two grew up together in Graz, tearing up the roads in the Styrian Alps in a Volkswagen Beetle in the early 60s while planning
Red Bull’s impending swap between Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda feels particularly brutal coming just two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 season – but history shows the company is not shy of shaking up its driver line-ups. Not counting its agreement with Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in its maiden 2005 campaign, Red
For Isack Hadjar, Australia doesn’t count. In our analysis of rookie debuts, thanks to the bumper crop of newcomers trickling into the field across the past six months, there’s been a lot to discuss. Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Gabriel Bortoleto got their appraisals last week but, given Hadjar registered a Did Not Start in the
For RebelDot, the devil is in the detail – or, more specifically, in the data. All seven megabytes pour in from each Racing Bull every second, that is. It is becoming increasingly common for Formula 1 teams to have their own partners who deal with data, intelligent automation and insights, crunching numbers at such speed
