Liam Lawson revelation by Helmut Marko piles the pressure onto Daniel Ricciardo
Liam Lawson contract detail rev🦄ealed which allows him to accept a 2025 F1 drive away from Red Bull and RB
Liam Lawson will become a free agent next year, and ౠHelmut Marko admits it would be “exciting” to see him in F1 this💖 season.
That revelation puts the position of the under-performing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo under even more pressure ahead of this weekend’s F1 Chinese Grand Prix.
Lawson impressed as a deputy for the injured Ricciardo for AlꦫphaTauri last season but was then overloౠoked for a full-time drive.
But his future could now be outside of the Red Bullꦉ or RB set-up because he is able to sign fꦍor another F1 team in 2025.
Red🌸 Bull advisor Marko was asked if he could rule out a driver swap mid-season in the RB team, to give Lawson a go.
Markღo told : “Of course, with Liam Lawson as reserve driver, we have a strong driver in the team who is contractually entitled to drive for another t😼eam if he does not get a cockpit with us in 2025.
“In this regard, it would of course be exciting for us if we co🀅uld see him in Formula 1 this year to get an even clearer picture.
“But this is a comple꧟x topic and we have to see what happens next.”
The poor form of Ricciardo has creat🦄ed the talking po🐼int about Lawson replacing him mid-season.
Ricciardo was himself a m𒅌id-sea✱son replacement for the struggling Nyck de Vries last year.
Ricciardo entered 2024 with hopes of claiming the Red Bull drive, alongside Max Verstappen, next year but now finds himself just trying to cling onto his curr💧ꦐent position.
Teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda has outshone Ricciardo for RB so far.
“Yuki had a great start to the season and is no longer the hot runner ꦅhe once was,” Markꦛo said.
“There have only b♏een four races, so you can't say much yet.
“But he has Da𒈔niel under control, even if it was close in Japan.
“The🔥 challenge for [Ricciardo] was t♏hat he clearly had to be faster than Yuki if he wanted to have any hope of winning the seat at Red Bull.
“Th🌟at hasn't been the case so far, even if, as I said, it was close. We'll see how this develops.”
Marko also moved to 🍸shut dow﷽n any rumours that Red Bull could sell their sister team, the recently rebranded RB.
“I really 👍don't understand where these things keep comi💙ng from,” he said.
“Everything has been clarified and fixed wi🐷th th📖e shareholders.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from Americ𒆙an🔯 sports, to football, to F1.
