{"id":334441,"date":"2025-08-11T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334441\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:31:10","slug":"how-red-bull-axe-left-liam-lawson-with-max-verstappen-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334441\/","title":{"rendered":"How Red Bull axe left Liam Lawson with Max Verstappen void"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Lawson had looked forward to finding out what really made Max Verstappen tick by delving into his data.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But alas, Red Bull demoted Lawson back to Racing Bulls after just two rounds of F1 2025. That left him with learnings of little value to take away.<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson missed out on Max Verstappen data education<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n

After the departure of Sergio Perez following the 2024 campaign, Red Bull turned to Liam Lawson as his replacement. While his Formula 1 experience was limited to a pair of spells with junior team Racing Bulls in 2023 and 2024, Red Bull felt the New Zealander was best prepared mentally to go up against Verstappen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But, it was a harrowing experience for Lawson, who after two race weekends spent largely at the back of the grid, returned to Racing Bulls, with Yuki Tsunoda moving the other way.<\/p>\n

Lawson was the latest driver to find out why Verstappen has built his reputation as the Red Bull team-mate killer. But, he did not learn as much about the four-time World Champion as he had hoped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very excited to have that opportunity to basically see everything that he was doing in detail,\u201d Lawson admitted about Verstappen to RacingNews365.com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause I think the thing is, to be honest, we have so much data shared across teams at the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very simple data, but as a driver, it\u2019s the main stuff that we\u2019re looking at, speed traces, you know, where somebody\u2019s braking, throttle places, gears, things like that that we use.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually can see across the grid what people are doing. So I already compare with Max a lot to see how he\u2019s approaching corners and things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it was the detailed stuff that you wouldn\u2019t get across teams that I was excited to have, but in two weekends, it\u2019s very hard to take too much from that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lawson has impressed since returning to Racing Bulls. Having shaken off the Red Bull disappointment, he has collected 20 points, only two shy of impressive rookie team-mate Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n

Lawson recorded a career-best result of sixth in Austria, all while Tsunoda is languishing below him in the Drivers\u2019 Championship<\/a> with only 10 points on the board.<\/p>\n

That has led to speculation over Tsunoda\u2019s long-term future at Red Bull, considering his ties with Honda, who will switch its engine supply to Aston Martin from next season.<\/p>\n

Lawson was asked by PlanetF1.com at the Hungarian Grand Prix about the idea of a Red Bull return.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, in terms of my future, it\u2019s been so busy this year that I\u2019m not really thinking about it,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m focused on having some good races. Obviously, we\u2019ve had some recently, but three of them isn\u2019t enough over 12 races, or however many it\u2019s been, so we need to do more of this, and then we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next: Sergio Perez makes major change as F1 comeback rumours ramp up<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson had looked forward to finding out what really made Max Verstappen tick by delving into his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,225,228,1073,12,226,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-home-page","12":"tag-liam-lawson","13":"tag-max-verstappen","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-red-bull","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007316565625340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334441","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=334441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}