Liam Lawson will race for Red Bull in Formula One next year after being named as Sergio Pérez’s replacement for the 2025 season. Less than a day after news broke that Pérez and Red Bull were parting ways, Red Bull confirmed that Lawson, 22, would fill the vacancy, lining up alongside Max Verstappen from next year.

Yuki Tsunoda will represent experience and continuity at Racing Bulls next year but, passed over for promotion, the Japanese looks to be running out of road at the Red Bull-owned Formula One team.

Surely Yuki Tsunoda believed this would be his time for the highly coveted promotion. Four years behind him at Red Bull’s sister team, with a record 12 Q3 progressions in 2024, the popular Japanese driver believes he is entering his primetime years at 24.

Red Bull faced a difficult decision that would impact at least three different drivers. Did it make the right one?

The 2025 Formula 1 grid has been completed after Visa Cash App RB announced in a statement that Isack Hadjar will drive for the team next season .

Formula 1 team Red Bull says Liam Lawson will be the partner for world champion Max Verstappen in 2025. Lawson is a New Zealander.