Re: They say, "Red Bull closing in on Liam Lawson swap with Yuki Tsunoda"

On 2025-03-25 7:09 PM, a425couple wrote:

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 Red Bull closing in on Liam Lawson swap with Yuki Tsunoda for Japanese GP
Luckless Lawson set for the drop and Tsunoda poised to finally get his chance to shine in Red Bull's main team.
Ben Hunt
Ben Hunt
Mar 25, 2025, 3:04 PM
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Liam Lawson, Red Bull Racing
Liam Lawson, Red Bull Racing
 Photo by: Sam Bloxham / Motorsport Images
 Yuki Tsunoda is in line for a call up to Red Bull’s F1 team for next week’s Japanese Grand Prix - just as Motorsport exclusively reported last Sunday.
 Lawson has come under pressure after making a difficult start to the season, crashing out of the Australian GP and was a lowly 15th place in China. The New Zealander has struggled to adjust to the RB21, which has prone to unpredictable handling and lacking in grip, which is not inspiring confidence. His teammate, however, four-time world champion Max Verstappen has fared better, but has still conceded he faces a mammoth task in retaining the title this season driving the RB21.

I suspect that Tsunoda will fare little better than Lawson in the Red Bull car.
As has been mentioned before, Tsunoda was barely better than Lawson when they were teammates. Any hope that he will pull some performance out of the bag at Red Bull is surely faint.
Max has managed to deal with the Red Bull car as well as he has because -- and I hate to admit it -- he is a far better driver than most of the field, and certainly better than Perez, Lawson or Tsunoda.
One might even suggest that for anyone other than Max, getting a seat in the Red Bull car is a career kiss of death.