Red Bull considering replacing Liam Lawson after just two races | Motor-sport News

Red Bull’s New Zealand-born driver Liam Lawson is likely to be replaced Yuki Tsunoda for the Japanese Grand Prix, Sky Sports reported.
The 23-year-old Lawson had a poor start to his Red Bull career. Lawson was promoted over experienced Yuki Tsunoda.
Red Bull team principal Chrian Horner did not commit on the future of Lawson when asked about it after the Chinese Grand Prix.
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“There’s always going to be speculation in the paddock. As I say, we’ve only just finished the race here. We’ll take away the info and have a good look at it. I think Liam’s had a tough couple of races, a tough weekend here. We elected to take him off the grid out of parc ferme to do a significant set-up change and so we’ve managed to get 56 laps of reasonable data from that,” Horner said.
“Obviously, we’ll take that away, we’ll have a good look at it, and, as a group, we’ll do our best to support him. Liam is obviously confidence-wise struggling with the car at the moment, which is why we made some significant changes to see if we could find a more confidence-inspiring set-up for him,” Horner added.When speaking to Sky Sports F1 Lawson felt that he would have been better off if he did more testing.
“We are two races in and we are racing. You would love to have 60 test days. I know a lot of the other guys tested a lot outside of the season.
Unfortunately, it’s not something we did but there’s nothing we can do. It’s just one of those things. It’s not an excuse, just something I have to get on top of.” Lawson replaced Daniel Ricciardo at Racing Bulls, Red Bulls’ ser team, and then Sergio Pérez at Red Bull.Story continues below this ad
Talking about getting a seat ahead of Tsunoda, Lawson had told The Telegraph: “If I look back over our careers, I was teammates with (Tsunoda) in F3 and I beat him. In Euroformula I was teammates with him, in New Zealand, and I beat him there. Then in F1 I think honestly, if I look at all the times he got promoted instead of me in those early years, then no. He’s had his time. Now it’s my time.”
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