Liam Lawson has broken his silence after his sudden demotion from Red Bull to its junior Formula One team, Racing Bulls, following the Chinese Grand Prix. As F1 heads to Japan's Suzuka Circuit this weekend, Lawson admitted that he "wasn't expecting" the setback.

Yuki Tsunoda finally has his promotion at Red Bull. He was elevated last week and Liam Lawson was demoted to Red Bull’s second team — Racing Bulls — after failing to score points in the season’s first two races.

Yuki Tsunoda is yet to feel the “trickiness” of Red Bull machinery previously mentioned, but has picked up on the “instability”. Nonetheless, Tsunoda does not plan to ask his new team-mate, the multi-time World Champion who has mastered the Red Bulls,

SUZUKA, Japan - Yuki Tsunoda said he has not been offered any guarantees about how long he will stay at Red Bull but is confident he can rise to the challenge, even if he is not promising to match teammate Max Verstappen from day one.

Even for a team with a reputation for making sudden midseason driver swaps, to move this early in the year feels abrupt.

Former Red Bull driver Sergio Perez says he is in talks with Formula 1 teams about a return to the grid after having his contract ended two years early.

Tsunoda takes over a RB21 car which destroyed Lawson’s confidence and has proven incredibly challenging to drive. How quickly Tsunoda can adapt to Red Bull’s tricky 2025 challenger, without the benefit of a pre-season test under his belt, is one of the biggest questions heading into the weekend.

Red Bull say Yuki Tsunoda will see out the rest of the 2025 F1 season regardless of his performances. That is according to Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko, who insists there will be no further driver changes at the team this year following their sudden and brutal decision to axe Liam Lawson.