Barely three months ago, Yuki Tsunoda’s window to drive for Red Bull Racing in Formula One appeared to have closed. Despite putting forward a strong case through the 2024 season for its sister team, RB, Red Bull passed over Tsunoda when replacing Sergio Pérez. Instead, it promoted Tsunoda’s teammate Liam Lawson into the seat.

Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson have switched rides, as Red Bull Racing hopes to keep its F1 Constructors' Championship hopes alive. Tsunoda comes to this week's F1 Japanese Grand Prix having not yet driven Red Bull’s RB21.

In the course of just a few days, Yuki Tsunoda's F1 career went from possibly getting his last shot to prove he could go somewhere else besides Red Bull's B team, to getting a spot in the big leagues with the team that passed him over time and time again.

Yuki Tsunoda's big break in Formula 1 looked to have slipped away. Red Bull never quite believed. Honda's support had seemingly started to drift. Now, though, with a Red Bull debut at his home of Suzuka on the horizon,

Red Bull’s decision to replace Liam Lawson with Yuki Tsunoda after just two races of the 2025 F1 season will be a purely racing one – but there will be a secondary bonus for the team this weekend. Tsunoda will be racing in a special Japanese-inspired livery in his RB21 car over the weekend after Red Bull revealed the new design this week.

Yuki Tsunoda will replace Liam Lawson at Red Bull from the Japanese Grand Prix, and the New Zealander will return to the Racing Bulls.

The Red Bull Racing F1 team has parted ways with Liam Lawson after just two races for the 2025 season, making way for Racing Bulls' Yuki Tsunoda.

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Yuki Tsunoda's RB21 has been summoned by the FIA ahead of the star's debut with Red Bull at the Japanese Grand Prix. Tsunoda is racing with the main Red Bull team for the first time this weekend, following the demotion of Liam Lawson after just two grands prix weekends.