Red Bull are reportedly weighing up whether to immediately replace 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson.

A switch could take place between Lawson and Racing Bulls driver 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda as early as the next F1 race, the Japane𓄧se Grand Prix, according to .

Red Bull are already considering the swap after Lawson’s nightmare start to the 2025 F1 season continued in China this weekend.

Lawson crashed out o⛦f the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on his Red Bull debut after𝔉 being eliminated in the first part of qualifying.

The 23-year-old Kiwi then qualified last for both the sprint race and the m๊🀅ain grand prix in Shanghai.

Lawson could only recover to 15th in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, compounding his truly miserable start to the year. He was promoted to 12th when three drivers were🍃 later disqua🐻lified.

Rumours are swirling that a driver swap between Red Bull and their sister team Racing Bu🥀lls is likely.

Tsunoda was ini🌞tially overlooked by Red Bull for a 2025 F1 promotion as the team instead opted to promote Lawson as the axed Sergio P🐬erez’s replacement.

That was despite Lawson completing just 11 grands prix spread over two years for Racing Bulls and his failure to convincingly out-per🐓form Tsunoda.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner cited Lawson’s mental resilience as being 🌠a key factor behind the decision.

“Radical” set-up behind poor Chinese GP

Horner revealed after Sunday’s race that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Red Bull had ꧟experimented with the set-up on Lawson’s car to gain so🌼me crucial learning.

“We made the decision to take him o♒ff the grid, and into parc ferme, to try some radical changes on the set-up because we are so limited in te🍸sting these cars,” Horner told Sky Sports.

“It mad🔯e sense to say ‘okay, we are starting at the back, let’s try to learn something’🦩.

"We have done that. We have 56 laps of information wit🅺h a rad♓ically different set-up on the car.

“T𝔉hat gives huge information back into the factory as we look to improve our performance.”

On the set-up, Lawson commented: "We tried to do🌠 something aggressive with the set-up, mostly to learn something, to get an idea.

"We definitely learned something but it just dꦍidn’t work today."

Asked about Lawson’s future, Horner said: “Liam is a great little racer. He gets his elbows out and๊ races hard.

“He’s just struggling, at the moment, to find the♊ limit and get the most out of this car.

“As a team, a group, we are looking to support him as best we can. He’ll be in th♛e debrief giving the information to the engineers.”

Horner added: “You are alwayℱs going for ultimate performance. Fast cars are never easy to drive.

“We know🔯 there is performance to find and we need both drivers up there, if there is any hope of fighting for the constructors’ championship.

"In the drive🐎rs’ championship, you need to have a seco𝔉nd car in play.

“You can’t just do it one-legged. As a🔜 team we want collectively to get both cars as far up the grid as we can.

“F1 is a pressure business. There is alway🍨s time pressure. He k🦄nows that.

“Hop꧋efully he will respond accordingly and we’ll see ▨where we go.”

Following a disas♑trous qualifying on Saturday, Lawson admitted he doesn’t have time to find confidence 𒉰in the RB21.

Pushed on w🧜hat he meant by that comment, Lawson replied: “We are into the seasons, two r🌟aces in, we are racing.

“You’d love to have 6ℱ0 test days. I know some of the other guys tested a lot out of season.

“It’s not something we did. It’s not s�🔜�omething we can do in this car anyway.

“It’s not an excuse. It’s somethiꩵng I need to get on🎐 top of, as quickly as I can.”