Lawson broke the record of a Dutchman at Red Bull

Liam Lawson is no longer a pilot Red Bull since Thursday, March 27. The sentence has been passed for the New Zealand driver, demoted to Racing Bulls after only two small Grands Prix contested within the Austrian team. He will be replaced from the Japanese Grand Prix, the next meeting of the 2025 season. F1, scheduled for Sunday, April 6, by Yuki tsunoda. The latter makes the opposite journey from the team of Faenza, with which he competed in 89 Grands Prix in just over four seasons.

The sad record broken by Lawson at Red Bull

The decision was taken by the Austrian team to swap his position with that of Yuki Tsunoda from the Japanese Grand Prix, the third round of the 2025 Formula 1 season. It must be said that Lawson had shown great difficulty in the first two rounds of the year, not rising higher than 18th place in the three qualifying sessions contested (including two last places in China) and with a 12th place in Shanghai as his best result in the race.

With only two Grands Prix contested, Liam Lawson breaks the unfortunate record for the fewest starts with the Red Bull team. Previously, this record was held by Dutch driver Robert Doornbos, who competed in three races with the Milton Keynes team in 2006 (China, Japan, Brazil). Another driver to have made fewer than five starts with Red Bull: Vitantonio Liuzzi (4 GPs in 2005).

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