Ralf Schumacher has gone a step further than Red Bull in assessing Liam Lawson and believes the Kiwi shouldn’t be in a Formula 1 car at all. After two races of the F1 2025 championship, Red Bull has made the difficult decision to pull Liam Lawson from their senior team line-up by swapping him with the experienced Yuki Tsunoda from the sister Racing Bulls squad. Lawson’s difficulty with adjusting to life in Red Bull’s RB21, and the resulting effect it had on his mental headspace, resulted in the team making the big call to drop the rookie driver back into their sister team, a lower-pressure environment which will allow him to try rebuilding – in similar fashion to how Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon have done in the past.
But their decision doesn’t have the support of former Grand Prix winner turned pundit Ralf Schumacher, who believes the Kiwi doesn’t merit a place on the grid at all. “He is replaced like a wet rag after two races. That’s tough,” Schumacher said to Germany’s Formel1.
de , in sympathy for Lawson’s plight, before explaining that the switch back “astonished” him as he wonders “what Lawson’s doing at Racing Bulls now”. “I know I’ll be hated for this by one or two spectators, but I wouldn’t have put Liam Lawson in a Formula 1 car at all,” he said, before seemingly pointing to Red Bull’s rising junior star Arvid Lindlad. “I would have given the opportunity directly to a young driver.
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