Lawson out, Tsunoda in: Why Red Bull are preparing an early driver change
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
We discuss Red Bull’s imminent replacement of Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Jon Noble joins Edd Straw to discuss the move and explain what it says about Red Bull’s driver strategy.
We discuss why Lawson couldn’t extract the pace from the Red Bull RB21 that Max Verstappen can and what it was about his progress that persuaded the team to abandon him so quickly.
And with Tsunoda now having the chance of a lifetime, we ask if he’s got what it takes to make a success of his opportunity.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on and Yuki Sanoda is set to take Liam Lawson's place for the Japanese Grand Prix and a switch that's unprecedented, even by Red Bull's high standards for driver chaos. |
| 1:35.1 | So why is it happening so soon and can Sonoda cut it? I'm Ed's drawing me to untangle this amazing turn of events is John Noble. |
| 1:43.6 | Oh John, astounding, frankly this is, isn't it? I think it's not |
| 1:47.9 | necessarily a surprise that Lawson at Repel hasn't worked out, but for it not to have worked out after |
| 1:52.4 | two races is pretty amazing. And although it's not officially confirmed yet, all the indications |
| 1:57.8 | are it's going to happen. Yeah, it is quite remarkable, especially because it's quite interesting. |
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