Liam Lawson has addressed the delay in his Formula 1 future being clarified, with the Red Bull family yet to make a series of key decisions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ahead of 2026, the only known seat filled within the Austrian organisation is Max Verstappen at Red Bull.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Yuki Tsunoda and Lawson are both without contracts for 2026, whilst Isack Hadjar reportedly has a deal for next season to have at least a seat in Red Bull or Racing Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko had revealed that a decision would be made after Mexico City; however, that has now been delayed further.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tsunoda has continued to struggle alongside Verstappen, but in Racing Bulls Lawson’s performances have improved considerably.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Based on current rumours, Hadjar is expected to partner Verstappen in Red Bull, with Arvid Lindblad to be promoted to Racing Bulls from Formula 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That would leave a battle between Lawson and Tsunoda for the second Racing Bulls seat, a decision which Lawson is unsure when it will be made.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A current distraction for both teams is the constructors’ championship, as Red Bull is fighting for second, with Racing Bulls fighting for sixth.<\/p>\n
Asked if he expects the decision to be made potentially after the season, Lawson told select media including RacingNews365: “Honestly, I have absolutely no idea. I would expect it to be towards the end, if not the end of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But it’s, yeah, it’s something, both teams are in a very important constructors’ Liam Lawson addresses F1 future clarification delay race. And I think to give the best opportunity possible for both teams, that’s the reasoning of this [delay], I would say.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But for that, I would say they’re going to push it as late as they can. But obviously, I don’t know.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has addressed the delay in his Formula 1 future being clarified, with the Red Bull family…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-152098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-racing","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}