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Red Bull’s impending swap between Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda feels particularly brutal coming just two grands prix into the 2025 Formula 1 season – but history shows the company is not shy of shaking up its driver line-ups.Not counting its agreement with Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi in itsContinue Reading

Late last summer I had lunch one day with a publisher in London. It was hot, if you can remember that, and we discussed a possible synopsis for a book, the cool Chablis slipped down very readily.What were they like, these Formula 1 people? Well, I said, they’re a mix,Continue Reading

The change is all but confirmed. As Autosport revealed on Sunday, Red Bull began considering a change to its driver line-up even before the Shanghai race – with Yuki Tsunoda emerging as the frontrunner to replace the struggling Liam Lawson. Discussions have since progressed following meetings in recent days, withContinue Reading

For Isack Hadjar, Australia doesn’t count.In our analysis of rookie debuts, thanks to the bumper crop of newcomers trickling into the field across the past six months, there’s been a lot to discuss. Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Gabriel Bortoleto got their appraisals last week but, given Hadjar registered a DidContinue Reading

Yuki Tsunoda is in line for a call up to Red Bull’s F1 team for next week’s Japanese Grand Prix – just as Autosport exclusively reported last Sunday.Liam Lawson has come under pressure after making a difficult start to the season, crashing out of the Australian GP and was aContinue Reading

If Formula 1’s mixed-weather opener in Australia could mask Red Bull’s ails, thanks in no small part to Max Verstappen’s exquisite driving, then Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix really set the alarm bells ringing.Verstappen rallied to finish fourth with a strong second stint on the hard tyres, but the preceding stintContinue Reading

The 2025 Formula 1 supertimes make for interesting reading so far and, despite a relatively small sample size, Mercedes pips Red Bull to have the second-fastest car – 0.345% short of McLaren. Red Bull (or rather, Max Verstappen) is just another 0.008% behind.It’s been an encouraging start to 2025 for Mercedes, asContinue Reading

For RebelDot, the devil is in the detail – or, more specifically, in the data. All seven megabytes pour in from each Racing Bull every second, that is.It is becoming increasingly common for Formula 1 teams to have their own partners who deal with data, intelligent automation and insights, crunchingContinue Reading

Ferrari had a day to forget at Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix with a double disqualification for Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton, but fake team order drama further added to team boss Fred Vasseur’s misery.Hamilton and Leclerc were running fourth and fifth respectively after their pitstops around lap 20 when fansContinue Reading