Liam Lawson insists Red Bull 2025 F1 drive prospect ‘not in my mind’

Liam Lawson insists he is not thinking about earning a promotion to the Red Bull senior team for F1 2♏025.

Liam Lawson
Liam Lawson

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson says the possibility of earning a Red Bull F1 sꦬeat for 2025 is “not in my mind” as he looks to sec𝓰ure a full-time drive.

The 22-year-old New Zealander will get an end-of-season cameo for Red Bull’s second team having replaced the axed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo for the remaining six races of the year.

Red Bull are yet to confirm who will partner 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda at RB next season but Lawson is the leading candidate for the full-time drive. He also has a chance to stake a claim as a potential replacement for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez in the senior team.

But Laws🍬on insists he is not thinking about the prospect of driving for Red Bull just yet.

“It’s not in my mind, but I’m definitely aware that being in the sec🌜ond team to Red Bull Racing that the future, if I do a good job, is going to [Red Bull],” Lawson told the F1 Nation podcast.

“My goal is to go to Red Bull Racing in the future and I know from their side as well, they are trying 🔴to look for the future of Red Bull Racing for when either Max or Checo eventually go somewhere, they always need driv💞ers to be ready for that.

“So I’m basically aware that if I do a good job, then that’s where my future is. When that can happen? That’s not something I’m really thinking abo🍬ut because I know it’s going to completely depend on how I go in my current seat.”

Speaking to the same podcast earlier this month, Red Bull team principal Christian Horner suggested that Lawson has an opportunity to put himself in the frame to partner168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen as early as 2025.

“This goes beyond VCARB, it encompasses Red Bull Racing,” Horner🎉 said. “Obviously we’ve got a contract with Sergio for next year, but you’ve always got to❀ have an eye out in terms of what comes next.”

Lawson reveale꧃d what Red Bull is expecting of him in the final races of 2024.

“Basically, they’re expecting me to perform at least as well as Yuki, I would say, is what the goal is from the team. They want me to match him and basically p𒉰erform. They want points,” he explained.

“Obviously, the team is fighting for sixth in the Constructors’, and that’s quit꧙e important for VCARB, so to basically score points is the goal.

“If we’re scoring points, then I think,🤡 at that point, we’re basically doing a good job. So that’s, honestly, th🐷e target that’s been set. But we’re always being evaluated.” 

Read More