{"id":161743,"date":"2025-06-06T02:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161743\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T02:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:02:12","slug":"liam-lawsons-replacement-yuki-tsunoda-will-be-given-time-and-support-red-bull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/161743\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson\u2019s replacement Yuki Tsunoda will be given \u2018time and support\u2019 \u2013 Red Bull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">Tsunoda has picked up points in three of the seven races since taking over from Lawson, but has struggled to give teammate Max Verstappen the support he needs, with the team fourth in the constructors\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">Tsunoda failed to reach the final phase of qualifying in the last two rounds in Monaco and Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">He is 15th in the Drivers\u2019 Championship with 10 points, while Verstappen is third with 137.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/advertising.nzme.co.nz\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI think the only thing that we can do is give him time and support and try and get a set-up that he\u2019s got confidence in,\u201d Horner said after the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cDriving these cars is all about confidence, and that\u2019s what he needs to find. I think he\u2019ll get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Yuki Tsunoda crashed his Red Bull car during qualifying for the Emilio-Romagna Grand Prix in Italy last month. Photo \/ AFP\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Yuki Tsunoda crashed his Red Bull car during qualifying for the Emilio-Romagna Grand Prix in Italy last month. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">Horner had said something similar about Lawson before he was relegated to the junior Racing Bulls team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">Meanwhile, Autosport.com is reporting that Red Bull has asked the sport\u2019s governing body, the FIA, to give driver Arvid Lindblad an exemption to get an F1 Superlicence before he turns 18 so that he can participate in F1 sessions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">The British-Swedish driver, who won the Formula Regional Oceania Championship in New Zealand last summer, is being considered as a reserve driver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">Red Bull already have reserve drivers, but their concern is that Verstappen is facing suspension and they may need to promote a driver from Racing Bulls into his seat, leaving the latter team short on drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\">A driver needs a Superlicence to be involved in any F1 activities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"OWmSzYQrNCPQt\" style=\"display:none\"><b>\u2013 RNZ<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tsunoda has picked up points in three of the seven races since taking over from Lawson, but has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[5176,25029,68053,4199,707,4200,20993,68049,27710,24337,68050,79,29738,3114,68052,16,15,9985,68051],"class_list":{"0":"post-161743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-and","9":"tag-be","10":"tag-bull","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-given","15":"tag-lawsons","16":"tag-liam","17":"tag-red","18":"tag-replacement","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-support","21":"tag-time","22":"tag-tsunoda","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-will","26":"tag-yuki"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114633961826587035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}