Decryption – Why did Red Bull dismiss Lawson after only two Grands Prix?

The verdict is in, as sharp as a blade. Liam Lawson will return to the Red Bull "B" team starting at the Japanese Grand Prix this weekend. Yuki tsunoda, which had initially been dismissed, is making the reverse journey. Collectively, the high dignitaries of Milton Keynes, led by Christian Horner and Helmut Marko, agreed that this was the only viable solution to preserve the New Zealander's hopes from a fatal outcome to his career, and the team from a predicted catastrophe in the Constructors' Championship. How did we get to this point? How can we explain that the current management could have been so wrong? Did they overestimate the potential of their protégé or deny an increasingly glaring evidence? It is to these unfortunately recurring questions at Red Bull that we will try to answer.

On paper, of all the young members of the Red Bull family, there was none more capable of thwarting the evil spells of the second car and defying fate. Fast, solid and without qualms, Liam Lawson (23 years old) was cut out for the job. Obviously, his limited experience (11 Grands Prix before Australia) would inevitably work against him, but he was also not expected to take the measure of Max Verstappen, just to get close to it. So there was enthusiasm before FP1 and 2 of the Melbourne Grand Prix raised the first questions. Questions that turned into doubts