{"id":782348,"date":"2026-07-06T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782348\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:24:18","slug":"f1-news-has-liam-lawson-done-enough-to-secure-his-racing-bulls-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/782348\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: Has Liam Lawson done enough to secure his Racing Bulls seat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"POLL:
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt was another strong race weekend for Liam Lawson in Britain. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n

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The New Zealander continued the strongest run of his Formula 1 career at the British Grand Prix, finishing sixth at Silverstone to equal his best result of the season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It marked Lawson\u2019s fifth consecutive points finish, moving him to 39 points for the year.<\/p>\n

That is already one more than he managed across the whole of last season, underlining the scale of his improvement after an up-and-down first full campaign.<\/p>\n

Lawson made a strong start at Silverstone from 10th and survived contact on the opening lap with Oscar Piastri before moving ahead of Racing Bulls teammate Arvid Lindblad.<\/p>\n

From there, he spent much of the race inside the points before late trouble for Max Verstappen and Kimi Antonelli helped lift him to sixth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a good day,\u201d Lawson told Sky Sports after the race.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had not a very good start, but a really good first lap here with the way the energy is.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven on the first lap you can make up quite a few positions. And then the car was just really good. Especially the second half of the stint for us, it really came alive.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo yeah, pretty happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The result continued a remarkable run for Lawson and Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old became the first driver since Verstappen in 2015 to score in five consecutive races for the team, and only the third in its history under any name to do so after Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n

It was another significant marker for a driver whose place in the Red Bull system has rarely felt completely secure.<\/p>\n

Lawson has now scored points seven times in 2026 and helped Racing Bulls continue one of the strongest spells in the team\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Silverstone also moved Racing Bulls to within one point of Alpine in the fight for fifth in the constructors\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n

Yet the timing of his run is important for another reason.<\/p>\n

Despite Lawson\u2019s results, speculation over his future has not gone away.<\/p>\n

A recent report from Spanish outlet SoyMotor suggested Bulgarian Formula 2 driver Nikola Tsolov had been secured for a 2027<\/a> seat at one of Red Bull\u2019s two Formula 1 teams.<\/p>\n

That has placed Lawson back under scrutiny, even as his recent results have strengthened his case to remain exactly where he is.<\/p>\n

Asked ahead of the Austrian Grand Prix whether talks had taken place over his future, Lawson insisted it was too early to focus on 2027.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very early days,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

Since then, Lawson has only added to his argument.<\/p>\n

His British Grand Prix result followed another strong weekend in Austria and extended a points streak that now puts him among the form drivers in the midfield.<\/p>\n

But Tsolov is also doing everything he can to force Red Bull\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

The Red Bull Junior became the first driver in Formula 2 history to take three consecutive wins after completing a Silverstone double.<\/p>\n

He won both the sprint and feature races in Britain, having also taken victory in the feature race in Austria a week earlier.<\/p>\n

That run gives Tsolov six wins for the season and a 17-point championship lead over Italian driver Gabriele Mini.<\/p>\n

For Red Bull, that creates a familiar dilemma.<\/p>\n

Lawson is delivering in Formula 1 now, while Tsolov is rapidly building the kind of junior record that usually demands promotion.<\/p>\n

If Tsolov continues that form, pressure to find him a seat will only grow.<\/p>\n

But Lawson\u2019s case is now equally clear.<\/p>\n

He has beaten last year\u2019s points tally, scored in five straight races, equalled his best result of the season, and helped Racing Bulls move towards the front of the midfield battle.<\/p>\n

In a system where drivers can often be judged harshly, Lawson is giving Red Bull fewer reasons to look elsewhere.<\/p>\n

There is still time for the picture to change, and Red Bull\u2019s future plans are rarely straightforward.<\/p>\n

But after Silverstone, the question feels more pointed than ever.<\/p>\n

So in this week\u2019s poll we\u2019re asking \u2014 has Liam Lawson done enough to secure his F1 seat?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was another strong race weekend for Liam Lawson in Britain. Image: XPB Images The New Zealander continued…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,2334,817,813,816,3352,206381,9107,12357,85],"class_list":["post-782348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-british-gp","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-liam-lawson","tag-nikola-tsolov","tag-racing-bulls","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782348","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=782348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}