Liam
Lawson

Liam Lawson was born on 11 February 2002 in Hastings, New Zealand, and grew up in Pukekohe. He started karting in 2008 and won two karting titles in New Zealand in 2014. In 2016 he took the New Zealand F1600 championship, winning fourteen of the fifteen races. He was then runner-up in Australian F4 in 2017 and in ADAC Formula 4 in 2018. In 2019 he won the Toyota Racing Series with M2 Competition, sealing the title at the New Zealand Grand Prix. That year he also finished second in Euroformula Open and joined the Red Bull Junior Team.

He raced for Hitech in Formula 3 in 2020, winning three races and finishing fifth in the standings. In Formula 2 he came ninth with Hitech in 2021, winning the first sprint race on his debut in Bahrain. Alongside this he raced in the 2021 DTM for AF Corse in a Ferrari 488 GT3, winning on his debut at Monza as the youngest race winner in the series' history and finishing as runner-up. In 2022 he finished third in Formula 2 with Carlin, taking four wins and ten podiums. In 2023 he finished second in Super Formula with Mugen, winning three races.

In Formula One, Lawson was a reserve driver for AlphaTauri and Red Bull in 2022 and 2023. He made his debut at the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix, standing in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo, and finished 13th. In Singapore he came ninth and scored his first championship points. He contested five races and ended the year 20th in the standings. In 2024 he replaced Ricciardo at RB for the final six races, finishing ninth in the United States and in São Paulo, where he started from fifth on the grid. He ended that season 21st.

In 2025 he was promoted to Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen. After the first two race weekends Yuki Tsunoda took his seat, and Lawson moved back to Racing Bulls. There he finished sixth in Austria and eighth in both Belgium and Hungary. In Azerbaijan he qualified third and finished fifth. He ended the season 14th in the championship. In 2026 he drives for Racing Bulls alongside Arvid Lindblad, and he also raced for Red Bull again for a time.

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