Helmut Marko has revealed he would choose Nikola Tsolov over Liam Lawson for a Racing Bulls seat next season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The comments come with Lawson’s future at the Faenza-based outfit still unresolved heading into the closing rounds of this year.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson has done a sterling job, however, with the New Zealander the leading driver in the standings behind those racing with the ‘big four’ teams of Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Even taking into account the 14 points Lawson scored during his three-race cameo with Red Bull just after the summer break as the replacement for an injured Isack Hadjar, the New Zealander would still be comfortably clear of 10th-placed Pierre Gasly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Tsolov, meanwhile, is next in line in the Red Bull pipeline. The Bulgarian finished runner-up in last year’s F3 championship, and is currently second in this season’s F2 with two rounds remaining in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, provided they go ahead.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Marko, the long-time architect of Red Bull’s junior programme, has made clear where his sympathies lie when reflecting on the Lawson-Tsolov dilemma.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
He has pointed to the junior driver’s development in F3 and F2 as proof of Red Bull’s long-standing philosophy of promoting its own talent.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Referring initially to Dietrich Mateschitz, the founder of the two F1 teams who passed away in October 2022, speaking to Krone, Marko said: “I subscribe to a saying by Mateschitz: ‘We don’t buy stars, we make stars’.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We’ve always sought out our own drivers who are capable of winning a grand prix. With a few exceptions, it’s worked.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“In keeping with that philosophy, the difficult decision between Liam Lawson and Nikola Tsolov at Racing Bulls should really go in Tsolov’s favour.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helmut Marko has revealed he would choose Nikola Tsolov over Liam Lawson for a Racing Bulls seat next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-943138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943138","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=943138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}