Lawson out, Tsunoda in: Why Red Bull are preparing an early driver change

The Race F1 Podcast

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4.6 • 942 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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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. Join The Race Members' Club on Patreon today - we even have an F1-only tier! Head to Patreon.com/therace Follow The Race on Instagram, X and Facebook Check out our latest videos on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.7	The Athletic. The race is on, and Yuki Sanoda is set to take Liam Lawson's place for the Japanese
0:46.6	Grand Prix and a switch that's unprecedented, even by Red Bull's high standards for
0:50.2	driver chaos.
0:51.6	So why is it happening so soon and can Son Sano to cut it? I'm Ed Strawn
0:54.8	and joining me to untangle this amazing turn of events is John Noble. Oh John, astounding, frankly
1:02.1	this is, isn't it? I think it's not necessarily a surprise that Lawson at Repel hasn't worked
1:06.0	out, but for it not to have worked out after two races is pretty amazing. And although it's not
1:11.9	officially confirmed yet, all the indications are it's going to happen. Yeah, it is quite remarkable,
1:17.7	especially because it's quite interesting. I wrote a piece this morning just about, you know,
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