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It could only be better if ferrari got a double dsq at monza.
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You can refill fluids and repair damaged items.
The wheels themselves are not a standard item and are designed by teams.
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Ffs Albon and Stroll have more points then Hamilton and Leclerc at this point. Stroll is currently carrying Aston Martin alone
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I think DSQ's when they are not even on the fucking podium is gay as fuck, the sandnigger won't be improving his electoral chances if keeps doing that.
Also tsunoda yelled fuck on the radio, I don't think the FIA desperately needs the 50 grand over an already poor reputation.
Also tsunoda yelled fuck on the radio, I don't think the FIA desperately needs the 50 grand over an already poor reputation.
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If he did, its very good. Now FIA can either stick to its guns and penalize him, which will most likely cause a media blackout from many drivers, or ignore the rule and not penalize it, at which point other drivers will fully ignore these rules.
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Pato, despite racing under the Mexican flag, is White and grew up in San Antonio, Texas. He'd make a better "American" for Cadillac and would attract a lot of Latin American fans.
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Red Bull could now drop Lawson before next F1 race
Mar 23, 2025 by Jon Noble
Red Bull boss Christian Horner says the team will decide on Liam Lawson’s Formula 1 future before the Japanese Grand Prix – with an immediate change not off the table.
As revealed on Saturday by The Race, Lawson’s future with Red Bull has been put in jeopardy by a disastrous start to the season.
He qualified last in both qualifying sessions at the Chinese Grand Prix, and was barely better in Australia as he managed just 18th on the grid.
There had been hope that set-up changes made to his car for the Shanghai race would offer an opportunity for him to unleash more speed, but he endured a tough afternoon as he came home 15th on the road after starting from the pitlane.
Lawson’s failure to make an impression has left Red Bull aware that it needs to make a call on where things go from here – with various options believed to be on the table.
One is to elect to stick with Lawson for the next race in Japan and see if his knowledge of that track allows him to show his capabilities more.
However, Red Bull could conclude that it is better, off the back of the confidence-sapping situation the New Zealander finds himself in, to make an immediate change.
Such a call could be prompted by the squad feeling that a move to potentially swap Lawson with Racing Bulls’ Yuki Tsunoda would relieve the pressure on him before it became too much.
Should Red Bull overlook Tsunoda again, his Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar could be another option, as would those drivers without a 2025 race seat who are chasing a return to the grid.
While Horner is clear no decision has been taken yet, he did say after the Chinese GP that the squad needed to spend time in the gap before the next race to work out what it was going to do on the driver front.
“There's always going to be speculation in the paddock,” he said when asked about the possibility of a driver change.
“We've only just finished the race here. We'll take away the info and have a good look at it.
Pushed on whether or not it was possible that Lawson would be out for Japan, Horner replied: “Look, I think everything is purely speculative at the moment.
“As I said, we've just finished this race, we're going to take the info and have a good look at it.”
Horner said that one of the key considerations for the team was doing what was best for Lawson – and that could mean removing him from the pressure environment of Red Bull.
“Look, he's a young guy, we've got a duty to look after him,” he said. “We're going to do the best that we can to support him.
“Liam is still a very capable driver, we're just not seeing it for whatever reason, not seeing him able to deliver that at the moment.
“I think Liam still has got potential. We're just not realising that at the moment.
"I think the problem for him is he's had a couple of really tough weekends, he's got all the media on his back, and a whole bunch of pressure just naturally grows in this business. I feel very sorry for him."
Lawson readily admits that he is struggling to get comfortable in the RB21, and that his situation was not an easy one to cope with.
“It's obviously extremely tough,” he said. “It's not something I'm enjoying, but I'm honestly working as hard as I can to get on top of it.”
And while clarifying that remarks he has made this weekend about not having time to work on improvements were more related to being in-season rather than in reference to losing his seat, he was in no doubt about the tough spot he found himself in.
“It's more, as in, we're in the season,” he said. “I don't have time to test the car and get used to it, but we're in the season already. So each race, we're losing points. That's more or less what I mean when I don't have time.
“But I'm also not stupid, and I know that obviously I'm here to perform, and if I'm not doing that, I'm not going to be around. So for me, I'm just focused on getting used to the car as quickly as I can.”
Lawson said it would be foolish to suggest that Red Bull was satisfied with how things were going.
“It’s safe to say that we're not happy. None of us are happy,” he said.
And when asked about if he was worried about Tsunoda being up for taking his Red Bull seat for Japan, Lawson said: “Not really. He can honestly say whatever he wants.
“I mean, I've raced for years, raced in junior categories and beat him and I did in F1 as well. So he can say whatever he wants.”
Mar 23, 2025 by Jon Noble
Red Bull boss Christian Horner says the team will decide on Liam Lawson’s Formula 1 future before the Japanese Grand Prix – with an immediate change not off the table.
As revealed on Saturday by The Race, Lawson’s future with Red Bull has been put in jeopardy by a disastrous start to the season.
He qualified last in both qualifying sessions at the Chinese Grand Prix, and was barely better in Australia as he managed just 18th on the grid.
There had been hope that set-up changes made to his car for the Shanghai race would offer an opportunity for him to unleash more speed, but he endured a tough afternoon as he came home 15th on the road after starting from the pitlane.
Lawson’s failure to make an impression has left Red Bull aware that it needs to make a call on where things go from here – with various options believed to be on the table.
One is to elect to stick with Lawson for the next race in Japan and see if his knowledge of that track allows him to show his capabilities more.
However, Red Bull could conclude that it is better, off the back of the confidence-sapping situation the New Zealander finds himself in, to make an immediate change.
Such a call could be prompted by the squad feeling that a move to potentially swap Lawson with Racing Bulls’ Yuki Tsunoda would relieve the pressure on him before it became too much.
Should Red Bull overlook Tsunoda again, his Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar could be another option, as would those drivers without a 2025 race seat who are chasing a return to the grid.
While Horner is clear no decision has been taken yet, he did say after the Chinese GP that the squad needed to spend time in the gap before the next race to work out what it was going to do on the driver front.
“There's always going to be speculation in the paddock,” he said when asked about the possibility of a driver change.
“We've only just finished the race here. We'll take away the info and have a good look at it.
Pushed on whether or not it was possible that Lawson would be out for Japan, Horner replied: “Look, I think everything is purely speculative at the moment.
“As I said, we've just finished this race, we're going to take the info and have a good look at it.”
Horner said that one of the key considerations for the team was doing what was best for Lawson – and that could mean removing him from the pressure environment of Red Bull.
“Look, he's a young guy, we've got a duty to look after him,” he said. “We're going to do the best that we can to support him.
“Liam is still a very capable driver, we're just not seeing it for whatever reason, not seeing him able to deliver that at the moment.
“I think Liam still has got potential. We're just not realising that at the moment.
"I think the problem for him is he's had a couple of really tough weekends, he's got all the media on his back, and a whole bunch of pressure just naturally grows in this business. I feel very sorry for him."
Lawson readily admits that he is struggling to get comfortable in the RB21, and that his situation was not an easy one to cope with.
“It's obviously extremely tough,” he said. “It's not something I'm enjoying, but I'm honestly working as hard as I can to get on top of it.”
And while clarifying that remarks he has made this weekend about not having time to work on improvements were more related to being in-season rather than in reference to losing his seat, he was in no doubt about the tough spot he found himself in.
“It's more, as in, we're in the season,” he said. “I don't have time to test the car and get used to it, but we're in the season already. So each race, we're losing points. That's more or less what I mean when I don't have time.
“But I'm also not stupid, and I know that obviously I'm here to perform, and if I'm not doing that, I'm not going to be around. So for me, I'm just focused on getting used to the car as quickly as I can.”
Lawson said it would be foolish to suggest that Red Bull was satisfied with how things were going.
“It’s safe to say that we're not happy. None of us are happy,” he said.
And when asked about if he was worried about Tsunoda being up for taking his Red Bull seat for Japan, Lawson said: “Not really. He can honestly say whatever he wants.
“I mean, I've raced for years, raced in junior categories and beat him and I did in F1 as well. So he can say whatever he wants.”
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Lawson showed no improvement but I don’t think anyone can do well in the second seat.
It’s time for redbull to pull the trigger and sign on Sainz. He’s been very good at adapting to cars driving styles of all the top teams cars and been solid.
Yuki will fail worse than Lawson. He’s only been driving the racing bulls car and only been refining his driving there and showing marginal improvements. Putting him in the redbull ufo car will end him.
It’s time for redbull to pull the trigger and sign on Sainz. He’s been very good at adapting to cars driving styles of all the top teams cars and been solid.
Yuki will fail worse than Lawson. He’s only been driving the racing bulls car and only been refining his driving there and showing marginal improvements. Putting him in the redbull ufo car will end him.
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The British media chimps out harder about Max on the radio than Max actually does on the radio. Hambone was chimping at his engineer before they'd even gone 10 laps this season. I don't see him slowing down.
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I think Sainz will stay put and maybe move to audi for 2026.
Regarding RB, i can't see anyone but yuki getting it - my only fear is that yuki isn't quite there. He'd need to be challenging top 4, not top 10 and that's a big ask for anyone tbh.
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Audi has Bortoletto and Hülkenberg for 2026. Maybe a year later unless Bortoletto begins pulling a Lawson or Sargeant
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Could Yuki deny going to RBR and keep his current seat? Or is he contractually obliged to obey the red bull overlords?
I'd never go to current RBR, the team is on a downward trajectory, key staff left, lots of drama in the background all the time, Marko, Papa Verstappen and Horner in the team.
There is nothing to be gained there.
I'd never go to current RBR, the team is on a downward trajectory, key staff left, lots of drama in the background all the time, Marko, Papa Verstappen and Horner in the team.
There is nothing to be gained there.
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Bortoleto was a back to back F3 and F2 champion and he doesn't have the gigantic pressure the media here put on barrichelo and Massa, unless Audi sabotages his car like they did with Nasr to sign Erickson like sauber did in 2015 I can't see him fucking things up.
I think red bull needs to replace horner and that deranged kraut in charge of their driver program.
Also get someone to design their car properly, I can't believe their staff can't do what a 70 year old dude could, no matter how talented he is.
Damn , if a Red bull exec wants Verstappen to fuck off from Red bull , that's the winning move.
Toto Signing Marko and Max if that happened lol Lauda's place is still vacant.
Horner has allies with the Thai Shareholder that own Red bull (51%) vs the austrian side (49%)
So its a dead lock.
Toto will make Jos head of Mercedes if it meant getting max
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Looks like it may be happening....
Red Bull has decided to drop Liam Lawson after just two starts for the team, multiple publications are reporting.
French Formula 1 broadcaster Canal Plus and Dutch newspaper de Telegraaf are among those claiming the shock change will happen before the next round of the world championship.
Both named Racing Bulls driver Yuki Tsunoda as Lawson’s replacement. Tsunoda would therefore start his first race for Red Bull in his home event at Suzuka.
RaceFans has approached Red Bull for comment.
Red Bull announced Lawson as Sergio Perez’s replacement after the end of last season. But his position at the team was thrown into doubt after his poor performances over the first two rounds.
Tsunoda is expected to take Lawson’s placeLawson was eliminated in the first round of all three qualifying sessions he participated in, including the sprint event in Shanghai. He crashed out on his debut in Australia, having stayed on the track on slick tyres when a shower hit the track. Although he climbed from last to 14th in the sprint race last weekend, he made less progress in the grand prix after starting from the pit lane.
The 23-year-old admitted he found Red Bull’s car difficult to handle. He started the last race from the pit lane after choosing to make changes to its suspension set-up in the hope of finding a better balance.
“We made the decision to take him off the grid, out of parc ferme, to try some radical changes on the set-up because you’re so limited in testing with these cars,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Sky after the race. “It made sense to say, okay, look, we’re starting at the back, let’s try and learn something out of the day.
Rade transcript: “I can’t turn the car at all” – Full radio from Lawson’s alarming Chinese GP slog to 16th“We’ve done that. We’ve got 56 laps’ worth of information with a radically different set-up on the car. Again, that gives huge information back into the factory, back into that system as we’re looking to improve our performance in the forthcoming races.”
Asked whether Lawson would have further time to work on his difficulties with the car, Horner said: “Formula 1 is a pressure business, isn’t it? There’s always time pressure and he knows that. Hopefully, he’ll respond accordingly and we’ll see where we go.”
Lawson joined Red Bull from their second team, Racing Bulls, where he was Tsunoda’s team mate over the last six races of 2024. Red Bull has previously swapped drivers between its two teams, notably when it promoted Max Verstappen in place of Daniil Kvyat in 2016, and are expected to return Lawson to Racing Bulls.
This article will be updated.
Tsunoda to replace Lawson at Red Bull at Japanese Grand Prix, reports claim
Posted on 25th March 2025, 21:13 | Written by Keith CollantineRed Bull has decided to drop Liam Lawson after just two starts for the team, multiple publications are reporting.
French Formula 1 broadcaster Canal Plus and Dutch newspaper de Telegraaf are among those claiming the shock change will happen before the next round of the world championship.
Both named Racing Bulls driver Yuki Tsunoda as Lawson’s replacement. Tsunoda would therefore start his first race for Red Bull in his home event at Suzuka.
RaceFans has approached Red Bull for comment.
Red Bull announced Lawson as Sergio Perez’s replacement after the end of last season. But his position at the team was thrown into doubt after his poor performances over the first two rounds.
Tsunoda is expected to take Lawson’s placeLawson was eliminated in the first round of all three qualifying sessions he participated in, including the sprint event in Shanghai. He crashed out on his debut in Australia, having stayed on the track on slick tyres when a shower hit the track. Although he climbed from last to 14th in the sprint race last weekend, he made less progress in the grand prix after starting from the pit lane.
The 23-year-old admitted he found Red Bull’s car difficult to handle. He started the last race from the pit lane after choosing to make changes to its suspension set-up in the hope of finding a better balance.
“We made the decision to take him off the grid, out of parc ferme, to try some radical changes on the set-up because you’re so limited in testing with these cars,” Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Sky after the race. “It made sense to say, okay, look, we’re starting at the back, let’s try and learn something out of the day.
Rade transcript: “I can’t turn the car at all” – Full radio from Lawson’s alarming Chinese GP slog to 16th“We’ve done that. We’ve got 56 laps’ worth of information with a radically different set-up on the car. Again, that gives huge information back into the factory, back into that system as we’re looking to improve our performance in the forthcoming races.”
Asked whether Lawson would have further time to work on his difficulties with the car, Horner said: “Formula 1 is a pressure business, isn’t it? There’s always time pressure and he knows that. Hopefully, he’ll respond accordingly and we’ll see where we go.”
Lawson joined Red Bull from their second team, Racing Bulls, where he was Tsunoda’s team mate over the last six races of 2024. Red Bull has previously swapped drivers between its two teams, notably when it promoted Max Verstappen in place of Daniil Kvyat in 2016, and are expected to return Lawson to Racing Bulls.
This article will be updated.
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multiple places are reporting the "yuki to replace lawson" news now.
