Tsunoda will replace Lawson, Czech replacement in Red Bull: Report

Liam Lawson will cease to be Red Bull pilot before Japan GP and Yuki Tsunoda will replace it, according to a report.

Liam Lawson will cease to be a pilot of Red Bullas soon as before the Japan Grand Prix of Formula 1 and its place will be occupied by the Japanese Yuki Tsunodawho served to China’s GP as a steering wheel of the brother team Racing Bullsthis according to a report by the Dutch newspaper of Telegraaf.

Liam Lawson had replaced the Mexican pilot Sergio ‘Checo’ Pérez In Red Bull from the 2025 season, which only has two dates of 24 and in which its results have been catastrophic, with zero points, an abandonment and grades in places 18, 20 and 20, in two GP’s and a sprint.

The report signed by the F1 reporter, Erik Van Haren, who continues the entire season and a insider very close to the Verstappen family, says that the decision was taken on Tuesday at a meeting they held in Dubai, the directors of Red Bull with the majority shareholder YOOVIDHYYA CHALERMwho lives in that emirate.

According to the note, the change was defined over the weekend in China and ratified at the Red Bull Summit.

It is also mentioned that Honda, a company that has always supported Tsunoda, participated in the agreement and that makes change for Red Bull.

“Red Bull is expected to officially announce the controversial and historically rapid change at the end of this week,” says the note.

Sergio Pérez There was four full seasons on Red Bull as a partner Max Verstappen And he achieved a worldwide runner-up of pilots, in addition to winning five races, 29 podiums and 14 1-2 in combination with the Dutch Tetrampeon.

Czech Pérez’s contract was terminated for 18 million euros, according to the report.

It is speculated that Lawson will return to Racing Bulls, so it will only be an exchange of pilots and no new grid pilot will upload.

Although Christian Horner And Verstappen acknowledged that the car is very complicated to drive, even Max suggested that Lawson would be better in Racing Bulls, Liam would have fulfilled the shortest and disastrous period of a pilot in the history of Red Bull.

It is expected that Thursday, according to Helmut Marko He told De Telegraaf, there is a second summit in Milton Keynes, where Max Verstappen will even face the difficult start of the Red Bull season.