US EditionThe Hard Lessons Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson Learned After Swapping F1 Seats
- After only two races in the 2025 season, Red Bull parted ways with Liam Lawson and brought in Yuki Tsunoda, a driver they had previously considered but decided against five months earlier.
- Lawson struggled with qualifying and consistency despite scoring his first points in eighth at Monaco, highlighting difficulty exploiting the RB21 car's potential.
- Tsunoda, having debuted in 2021 and spent years with the sister team, admitted to underestimating the RB21's unpredictability after crashing at Imola but remains optimistic ahead of the Canada race.
- The performance gap between Lawson and Tsunoda is about two tenths of a second, smaller than Lawson's gap to other drivers, but both face the challenge to adapt or risk losing their futures.
- The second Red Bull seat remains difficult, with mid-season changes becoming common and Red Bull focusing on accumulating constructors' points rather than matching Verstappen’s benchmark.
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Red Bull’s Ruthless Game: The aftermath of the Tsunoda–Lawson seat swap and a twist on the horizon
The second Red Bull Racing seat has long been Formula 1’s most volatile proving ground, a poisoned chalice cloaked in prestige, where dreams go to soar or die. For Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson, the events following their shocking post-China seat swap have exposed the unforgiving heart of that opportunity and left both drivers bruised […] The post Red Bull’s Ruthless Game: The aftermath of the Tsunoda–Lawson seat swap and a twist on the horizon a…
The hard lessons Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson learned after swapping F1 seats
In recent years the second Formula 1 seat at Red Bull has become the proverbial poisoned chalice – coveted by many, and yet ultimately toxic.Mid-season driver changes have almost become the norm, a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ – and while the faces change, the difficulty in exploiting the car’s theoretical potential remains an ominous common denominator.All the more so ...Keep reading
Adapt or get lost: The hard lessons Tsunoda and Lawson learned after swapping F1 seats
In recent years the second Formula 1 seat at Red Bull has become the proverbial poisoned chalice – coveted by many, and yet ultimately toxic.Mid-season driver changes have almost become the norm, a question of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ – and while the faces change, the difficulty in exploiting the car’s theoretical potential remains an ominous common denominator.All the more so ...Keep reading
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