Red Bull have replaced Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda for the Formula One 2025 season, with the latter set to take a seat for the team alongside reigning champion Max Verstappen from the Japanese Grand Prix set to take place on April 6. Lawson had come in for the outgoing Sergio Perez and endured a ... Yuki Tsunoda ’s final F1 back-up vanishes as Aston Martin sign Jak Crawford as 2026 reserve Guenther Steiner can’t see the positives in Tsunoda , but the lack of other options is a big reason why a decision on his future hasn’t been made earlier. In the entire history of Formula 1 , no Japanese driver has ever won a World Championship Grand Prix. Could Yuki Tsunoda be the first? Red Bull certainly think so, with the youngster resolutely following the path to their senior team over the past few years. Tsunoda 's ascent to the top tier of motorsport was astonishingly rapid: he went from racing in Japanese F4 to a Formula 1 seat with AlphaTauri, now Racing Bulls, in just over three years, having arrived in Europe in 2019 with no knowledge ... Yuki Tsunoda suffered an early scare in the only free practice session ahead of this weekend's São Paulo Grand Prix. Just under eight minutes into the 60-minute session in Interlagos, Tsunoda spun at Turn 5 and miraculously avoided a huge collision with the barriers.
