‘Unlikely’ Williams will take Liam Lawson for just one year, says Red Bull F1 boss Christian Horner
Despite impressing in his three outings as a stand-in for the injured 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri, the 21-year-old New Zealander has missed out on a full-time race seat for 2024, with Red Bull sticking with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda and the experience of Ricciardo.
There have been suggestions that Red Bull could place Lawson at Williams next season, replacing the under-pressure 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Logan Sargeant.
But Horner has poured cold water on the likelihoodܫ of that scenario becoming a reality. ♏;
“It wi🍒ll be unlikely that they will 💞take a driver for one year,” Horner told Sky when asked about the possibility of placing Lawson at Williams for next year.
When asked if there was any more Lawson could have done to seal an AlphaTauri drive for 2024, Horner replied: “No I don’t thi﷽nk so.
“Look, all of those drivers are Red Bul๊l Racing drivers, effectively placed at AlphaTauri.
“Daniel, with his experience🥃 and his motivation to com🔴e back, I think he’ll add great leadership to that team, and a great benchmark.
“Yuki has been making progress and I think having Daniel there as that benchmark, he’ll only lea🐻rn from that.
“Liam, it’s only a matter of time before he🐭 gets his opportunity and full-time chance. To have the three ☂of them there is very strong for the group.”
Horner ad♓mitted that Lawson “turned heads and gave us something to think about” with his p𒉰erformance in Singapore.
“I think he certainly turned heads and gave us somet🌃hing to think about, in particular fℱollowing his Singapore drive,” Horner said.
“He’s doing ev🎶erything possible to justify a case for a full-time drive but unfortunately three into two doesn’t go.”
And Horner stressed that Red Bullꦗ are keeping all of their options open for 2025.
“At Red Bull Racing we want 🥂the best two drivers that are available,” he 🌟added.
“We’ve got a long-term contract wit༒h Max. Checo is out🐓 of contract at the end of 24, and so you want to explore and see all of those options.
“Checo is in the hot seat at t🌟he moment and will 🍎obviously will be keen to extend.
“We’ll see how Daniel does, we’ll see how Yuki does and in the background, we’ll s🏅ee what Liam’s capable of in the test and reserve role.”
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