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In the round-up: Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has explained why they chose Liam Lawson instead of Yuki Tsunoda to join them for 2025. Red Bull passed over Tsunoda, who has four years of experience in F1, to hire Lawson, who has started just 11 races. Horner said the team felt Lawson had shown he was the better choice to go up against Max Verstappen .
“We felt that Liam’s trajectory, together with his mental strength and resilience, were the right assets to partner Max next year,” he told Talksport . “Because arguably that seat is the toughest in Formula 1, going up against Max Verstappen, who is at the peak of his career.” Horner said Tsunoda was inevitably disappointed at being overlooked for a promotion to the top team.
“I spoke to him a short while ago and he’s more motivated than ever,” he said. “He wants to prove us wrong, obviously. “As I said to him, this sport moves so quickly, this industry moves so quickly, he just needs to keep doing a great job in the Racing Bulls team.
He’s got a lot of talent, he drove our car at a test just a week or so ago as we wanted to really evaluate him and really impressed the engineering staff.” Advert | Become a Supporter & go ad-free “We are confident this transaction will benefit Moto GP’s business, fans, viewers and the broader motorcycle industry. Market participants have widely recognised the benefits of the transaction,” said Liberty Media in a statement.
“There is a very large and growing market for audiovisual entertainment well beyond sports, and this transaction will enhance Moto GP’s ability to compete in this highly competitive market. “We will continue to work with the European Commission as they progress their review and have agreed with the sellers to an extension of the longstop date to June 30, 2025 in order to accommodate the more in-depth investigation.” Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Bortoleto claims Hubert Award as top rookie in 2024 (Formula 2) 'I heard a lot about him, about how much of a great guy he was - not just as a driver but as a person.
I never met him properly, just once or twice in my life, but I’m hugely appreciative to be awarded this trophy as the rookie of the season. It means a lot to me.' Ramaphosa backs (South Africa's) ability to raise R2 billion (£86.
9 million) staging fee for Formula 1 (CarMag) 'The question is not whether we can afford to bring Formula 1 back to South Africa, but rather whether we can afford not to. I believe we cannot afford not to,' added the Minister, emphasising that the Government of National Unity under President Cyril Ramaphosa was fully behind the plan to back F1’s return.' We always endeavour to credit original sources.
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pic.twitter.com/FCw0a56Ns3 — James Vowles (@JV_F1) December 20, 2024 Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Franco Colapinto’s performance as a substitute at Williams impressed MichaelN: Those graphs are more impressive than I had assumed ; well done to Colapinto! He set himself up for a rough end to the season with crashing a car that was already running a refurbished ‘v4’ set of parts, but on the whole he certainly didn’t embarrass himself.
Unfortunately for him, I doubt the brief hype that already started to fade in the latter races will sustain him for another year. He’ll want to find a place to race – and win – in 2025 if he wants to do more F1 races in 2026 and beyond. MichaelN Happy birthday to Arun Srini, Fastmovingthoughts, Stig 3 and Dom!.
