{"id":163094,"date":"2025-12-01T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163094\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:59:10","slug":"liam-lawson-to-remain-in-formula-1-in-2026-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/163094\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson to remain in Formula 1 in 2026 – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Racing<\/p>\n

\nRacing Bulls driver Liam Lawson arrives in the paddock ahead of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix
\nPhoto: AFP\n<\/p>\n

Reports in Europe say New Zealand driver Liam Lawson will remain in Formula 1 in 2026.<\/p>\n

Red Bull will announce their driver lineups for Red Bull and Racing Bulls on Tuesday local time (Wednesday NZ time).<\/p>\n

Lawson’s Racing Bulls team-mate Isack Hadjar has said that he has a seat for next year<\/a> but would not say in which team.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman is expected to join Max Verstappen at Red Bull.<\/p>\n

Autosport.com is reporting that Arvid Lindblad will be promoted from F2 into one of the Racing Bulls seats, leaving Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda fighting for the other seat.<\/p>\n

The Dutch publication De Telegraaf is reporting that Lawson will be retained, leaving Tsunoda without a full-time race seat in 2026.<\/p>\n

It has been a turbulent year for Lawson who started his first full season in F1 in Red Bull before being demoted after two races.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old spent the rest of the season fighting for points and his survival.<\/p>\n

He finished ninth in Qatar last weekend, his seventh points finish of the season and he sits 14th in the Drivers’ Championship.<\/p>\n

Red Bull will end their relationship with Honda in 2026 and develop their own power units with help from Ford.<\/p>\n

Honda have been a long time supporter of Tsunoda and Autosport reports that the Japanese racer could become the team’s reserve driver.<\/p>\n

Tsunoda has been in F1 since 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson arrives in the paddock ahead of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-163094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-podcasts","15":"tag-public-radio","16":"tag-radio-new-zealand","17":"tag-rnz","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163094","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=163094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}