Liam Lawson has shared the one requirement for him and Yuki Tsunoda to retain their seats within the Red Bull family next year.<\/p>\n
Both drivers are fighting for their F1 survival amid disappointing campaigns for the energy drinks manufacturer’s two teams.<\/p>\n
The New Zealander started the season with the main team, but was brutally demoted after just two rounds, with Tsunoda headed in the other direction.<\/p>\n
Whilst the 23-year-old has fared considerably better at Racing Bulls, his future looks uncertain, especially as Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad is waiting in the wings.<\/p>\n
Tsunoda, meanwhile, is in the same boat, as he looks increasingly likely to lose his seat to Lawson’s current team-mate, Isack Hadjar.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the Japanese driver’s best hope of retaining a full-time drive in 2026 is back at Racing Bulls, where he began the year.<\/p>\n
When asked by Formula 1 if he had any idea when his future might be determined, Lawson replied: “In the next few races, hopefully.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know exactly when, but obviously at some point, that decision is going to have to be made.<\/p>\n
“So, I think in the next few races, and then the message to us is \u2014 I’m sure it’s the same across all of us \u2014 it’s: ‘perform’.<\/p>\n
“And obviously, the better we perform, the better chance we have at staying in the sport.<\/p>\n
“But timeframe’s very vague at the moment.”<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t‘One good result is not enough…’<\/p>\n
Lawson’s comments came in the run-up to the Singapore Grand Prix, the round directly following his best result in F1 to date.<\/p>\n
Having secured a superb fifth place at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, he headed to the Southeast Asian city-state looking to build on his performance.<\/p>\n
However, he endured a miserable weekend at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, where two session-ending practice crashes left him on the back foot.<\/p>\n
He never recovered from the disastrous start to the weekend and finished a disappointing P15 under the lights of F1’s original night race.<\/p>\n
“It’s tricky for me to say,” Lawson said when asked at the time if he felt he was currently doing enough to keep his seat.<\/p>\n
“Honestly, I try not to think too much about what decision they’re making and how they’re sort of perceiving.<\/p>\n
“And I think for me, I’m just focused on trying to extract everything out of the car every time I get in it.”<\/p>\n
Lawson is acutely aware that one good result will not determine his fate and that he needs to provide consistent results, something he was unable to do in Singapore.<\/p>\n
“And I think that’s why, as much as Baku was a great weekend, the mindset changes very quickly onto the next one,” he added.<\/p>\n
“Because I’m well aware that we need to keep this consistency going, and one good result is not enough…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has shared the one requirement for him and Yuki Tsunoda to retain their seats within the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-211038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}