
Red Bull risk making another Liam Lawson mistake with 2027 F1 decision
'Will Liam Lawson get a new contract at Red Bull?' is a perfectly good question to want an answer to. Unfortunately, we can't give you one.
30
Championship
9th
2026 season
Points
75
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Pole positions
0
Best finish
5th
17 starts
Liam Jared Lawson is a New Zealand driver from Hastings whose Red Bull-backed junior career took him across three continents. He won the 2019 Toyota Racing Series on home soil, finished third in Formula 2 in 2022 and was runner-up in Germany's DTM in 2021 and in Japan's Super Formula championship in 2023, a broad grounding for his step up to Formula 1.
Lawson made his Formula 1 debut at the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix as a stand-in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri, contesting five races, and returned for the final six rounds of 2024 with RB. Promoted to Red Bull Racing for 2025, he was moved back to Racing Bulls after two races and went on to record a career-best fifth place in Azerbaijan.
Junior career: 2019 Toyota Racing Series champion; 2021 DTM and 2023 Super Formula runner-up
| Round | Grand Prix | Grid | Finish | Sprint | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 13 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 14 | 7 | 8 | ||
| 3 | 14 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 11 | DNF | 0 | ||
| 5 | 12 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 6 | 10 | 5 | 10 | ||
| 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | ||
| 8 | 9 | 9 | 2 | ||
| 9 | 10 | 6 | 9 | ||
| 10 | 9 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 11 | 11 | 8 | 4 | ||
| 12 | 8 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 13 | 22 | 14 | 0 | ||
| 14 | 8 | 6 | 8 | ||
| 15 | 11 | 12 | 0 | ||
| 16 | 11 | 7 | 6 | ||
| 17 | 8 | 7 | 10 |

'Will Liam Lawson get a new contract at Red Bull?' is a perfectly good question to want an answer to. Unfortunately, we can't give you one.

Liam Lawson suffered a particularly brutal Red Bull demotion in 2025.
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