Red Bull are reportedly weighing up whether to immediately replace 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liam Lawson.

A switch could take place between Lawson and Racing Bulls driver 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yuki Tsunoda as early as the nꩲext F1 race, the Japanese Grand Prix, according to .

Red Bull are already considering the swap after Lawson’s nightmare start to the 2025 F1 season continued in China this weekend.

Lawson crashed out of the season-o🐠pening Australian Gr🔥and Prix on his Red Bull debut after being eliminated in the first part of qualifying.

The 23🎀-year-old Kiwi then qualified last for both the sprint race and the main grand prix in💎 Shanghai.

Lawson could only recover to 15th in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, compounding his truly miserable start to the year. He was pro🥂moted to 12th w🧸hen three drivers were later disqualified.

Ru�🐲�mours are swirling that a driver swap between Red Bull and their sister team Racing Bulls is likely.

Tsunoda was initially overlooked by Red Bull for a 2025 F1 promotion as the team instead opted to promote Lawson as the axed Sergio Perez’s replaceme🐽nt.

That was despite Lawson completing just 11 grands prix spread over 💙two years for Racing Bulls and his failure to convincingly out-perform Tsunoda.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner cited Lawson’s mentalﷺ resilience as being a key factor behind the decision.

“Radical” set-up behind poor Chinese GP

Horner revealed after Sunday’s race that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Red Bull had experimented with the🎐 set-up on Lawson’s car to gain some crucial learning.

“We made the decision to take him off the grid, and into parc ferme, to try some radical changes on the sꦅet-up 🐭because we are so limited in testing these cars,” Horner told Sky Sports.

“It made sense to say ‘okay, we are starting at the back, let’s💃 try to🧸 learn something’.

"We have done that. We have ꧒56 laps of information with a radically different set-up on the car.

“That gives huge information back into the factory as we look to improve ouꦚr perf𓆏ormance.”

On the set-up,♐ Lawson commented: "We tried to do something aggressive with the set-up, mostly to learn something, to get an idea.

"We definitely learned something but it just didn’t work to♊day."

Asked about Lawson’s future, Horner said: “Liam൩ is a great little racer. He gets his elbow𒆙s out and races hard.

“He’s just struggling, at the mome🐎nt, ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto find the limit and get the most out of this car.

“As a team, a group, we are looking to support him as best we can. He’ll be in the debrief giving the infor𝄹mation to the engineers.”

Horner added: “You are always goඣing for ultimate performance. Fast cars are never easy to drive.

“We know there is performance to find and we need both drivers up there, 🌌if there is any hope of fighting for the constructors’ championship.

"In the dr♏ivers’ championship, you need to have a second car in play.

“You can’t just do it one-legged. As a team we 🌟want collectively to get both cars as far up the grid as we can.

“F1 is a pressure business. The♏re is always time pressure. He knows that.

“Hopefully he will respond accordingly and🎀 we’ll see where𓆏 we go.”

Following a disastrous qualifying on Saturday, Lawson admitted he doesn’t haꦑve time to find confidence in the RB21🍬.

Pu🐲shed on what he meant by that comment, Lawson repliꦦed: “We are into the seasons, two races in, we are racing.

“You’dꦉ love to have 60 test days. I know some of the other guys tested a lot out of season.

“It’s not something we did. It’s not somethingඣ we can do in this car anyway.

“It’ꦕs not an excuse. It’s something I need to get on top of, as quickly as I can.༺”