The saga surrounding Yuki Tsunoda’s promotion and Liam Lawson’s demotion to Racing Bulls is thus: for years now, around and through Max Verstappen’s multiple world titles, Red Bull has been a one-car Formula 1 squad.
Since Daniel Ricciardo’s exit from the peak of his F1 career in 2018, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Sergio Perez and now Lawson have tried and failed to cope with driving a car principally arranged to suit the uber-pointy front-end preference of Max Verstappen across the Red Bull garage. That’s through two different design rules eras.
