until the last round to have his seat confirmed<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\nThere was plenty of praise for the 23-year-old during the season, most notably after his sixth place finish in Austria and fifth in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n
His team-mate Isack Hadjar has been promoted to Red Bull for 2026, while Arvid Lindblad will join him at Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n
Lawson now has another year to prove himself and Racing Bulls Team Principal Alan Permane is encouraged.<\/p>\n
“I truly see genius in him,” Permane told PlanetF1.<\/p>\n
“I think it’s up to all of us, him included, to try and understand, when everything is going well – and it often is – like during exceptional races in Austria, Budapest, and during qualifying and the race in Baku, what the secret is to this success.<\/p>\n
“We have to try to reproduce that throughout the season.”<\/p>\n
Lawson said he was relieved to have secured a seat for next year and had learnt from his roller-coaster run.<\/p>\n
“I think doing a first full season – you go in with a goal of how you think the year will go,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Obviously this year went a different way than what I thought and I’ve definitely learned to roll with that.<\/p>\n
“Going into next year, I’ll be in a much better position because of it.”<\/p>\n
F1 testing starts in Spain at the end of January with another two sessions in Bahrain in February. The opening round is in Australia in March.<\/p>\n
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\nAlan Permane, Isack Hadjar and Liam Lawson of Racing Bulls, 2025.
\nPhoto: JAKUB PORZYCKI \/ AFP\n<\/p>\n
2026 F1 calendar<\/p>\n
6-8 March: Australia
\n13-15 March: China
\n27-29 March: Japan
\n10-12 April: Bahrain
\n17-19 April: Saudi Arabia
\n1-3 May: Miami
\n22-24 May: Canada
\n5-7 June: Monaco
\n12-14 June: Spain (Barcelona)
\n26-28 June: Austria
\n3-5 July: Great Britain
\n17-19 July: Belgium
\n24-26 July: Hungary
\n21-23 August: Netherlands
\n4-6 September: Italy
\n11-13 September: Spain (Madrid)
\n24-26 September: Azerbaijan
\n9-11 October: Singapore
\n23-25 October: United States (Austin)
\n30 October-1 November: Mexico
\n6-8 November: Brazil
\n19-21 November: Las Vegas
\n27-29 November: Qatar
\n4-6 December: Abu Dhabi<\/p>\n
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