{"id":574220,"date":"2026-08-19T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574220\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T22:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T22:40:10","slug":"liam-lawsons-red-bull-return-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574220\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson&#8217;s Red Bull return confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">Liam Lawson&#8217;s shock return to Red Bull <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2026\/08\/19\/liam-lawson-set-for-shock-return-to-red-bull-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been confirmed<\/a>, with the Kiwi replacing Isack Hadjar for this weekend&#8217;s Dutch Grand Prix due to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lawson, who lasted just two races at Red Bull at the start of last season before being demoted to Racing Bulls, will partner Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Yuki Tsunoda, who replaced Lawson at Red Bull before losing his seat for 2026, will take Lawson&#8217;s place in the junior team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lawson had enjoyed a strong 2026 season with Racing Bulls, entering Formula 1&#8217;s summer break ninth in the driver&#8217;s championship on 43 points \u2014 the highest ranked driver outside the sport&#8217;s top four teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson&#8217;s shock return to Red Bull has been confirmed, with the Kiwi replacing Isack Hadjar for this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-574220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574220","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=574220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}