The first racing week of the 2025 Formula 1 season offered plenty of conversation. Because Red Bull Racing decided to change a merciless driver after only two Grands Prix. Amazing: According to a report from England, this was not quick enough for a RB manager.
Formula 1 racing team Red Bull Racing wanted to separate from Liam Lawson’s “Daily Mail” after the first race of the season in Australia. Only a veto of team boss Christian Horner prevented the 23-year-old from not being degraded into the B team earlier.
According to “Daily Mail”, consultant Helmut Marko was the driving force behind the considerations that Lawson had already shot after Melbourne. The New Zealand had ran the places 16 and 17 in his two training sessions. In qualifying it was only enough for P18, in the following race he crashed in round 46 and left. This was “too much” for Marko, writes the English newspaper.
Did Christian Horner work for Lawson?
Horner is said to have successfully campaigned internally to give Lawson another chance in China. When he could not use them, his already sparse loan was finally used up. The result is his transfer to the B team, for which he will drive now.
It is unlikely that the turbulence at Red Bull with the driver’s exchange Lawson/Tsunoda ends. One reason: Max Verstappen, who does not agree with that from his ex-teammate. He finds the decision too “too hard,” writes the “Daily Mail”. In addition, he is not keen to go to a team with tsunoda, it is said.
Apart from that, the overarching problem remains: the RB21 is simply not good enough and only moving to the limit for an artist like Verstappen. As long as this is the case, the racing team will probably not get out of the troubled fairway.