Red Bull has finally decided to dismiss Sergio Perez, in 2025 Liam Lawson will be Max Verstappen’s partner. Soon official while Isack Hadjar will be on the Racing Bulls
All that’s missing is the press release and the announcement. But for the rest the Red Bull he decided who to support Max Verstappen in 2025. It will be Liam Lawson a will race for the Milton Keys stable next year. The New Zealander won the domestic run-off with Yuki Tsunoda. Christian Horner and Helmuto Marko, as widely expected, have decided to jubilee Sergio Perez. Soon, according to the rumors coming from France, the swap will be official as well as the name of the other driver who will race in Racing Bulls seems to have been decided, he is another from the RB academy, Isack Hadjar.
Red Bull, announcement soon: Lawson with Verstappen in 2025
Liam Lawson new Red Bull driver 2025. As we anticipated last week, Lawson’s move to the first team has been formalised, preferred in the sprint to Yuki Tsunoda who will remain in Racing Bulls. Confirmation comes from France. Julien Febreau, official voice of F1 on Canal +has almost officially confirmed Red Bull’s move which will soon give Sergio Perez the nod to announce the New Zealand driver as his new teammate Max Verstappen. The official announcement could arrive in the next few days if not in the next few hours.
F1, Red Bull leads via Sergio Perez
There was no doubt about this either. That of Abu Dhabi was Sergio Perez’s last race with Red Bull and maybe even in F1. Despite Checo’s constant reassurances and more and more delirious father Antoniothe Milton Keys team will also shortly announce the termination of the contract with the Mexican for 2025. A scenario that both Christian Horner and Helmut Marko had already anticipated in their latest statements on the sidelines of the Abu Dhabi GP.
It remains to be understood how much Red Bull will have to pay into Perez’s pockets to break the contract with the Mexican whose performance has dropped dramatically in the last two seasons so much so that Red Bull has dropped to third place in the Constructors’ World Championship behind McLaren and Ferrari. More of the same Perez was the driver who did the most damage in 2024. However, there is talk of a severance payment of around twenty million.
Red Bull needs 20 million to get rid of Perez
As reported by Mark, if Red Bull decides to fire Checo Pérez, they will have to pay him between 20 and 30 million dollars in penalties. Furthermore, it seems that the Mexican has also refused a seat in Racing Bull next year. Horner and Marko proposed to the Mexican a role as ambassador of the Team in his country and throughout South America where it must be said Red Bull takes a lot of money from sponsors linked to the driver.
Drivers’ market: Hadjar promoted to Racing Bulls in place of Lawson
As in a puzzle, at this point there always remains an empty box in the mosaic of the drivers’ grid for the 2025 World Championship. With Lawson in Red Bull replacing Perez, the team seat is freed up Racing Bulls. Here too, the French journalist Febreau has no doubts: he will be the rookie Isack Hadjar to drive alongside Yuki Tsunoda in the other car of the Red Bull satellite team.
The French driver with an Algerian passport is part of Red Bull’s young driver program. In 2023 he took part in two Formula 1 free practices, the first in the Mexico City Grand Prix with AlphaTauri and the second in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with Red Bull Racing. Also at Yas Marina he raced the FP1 this year on Verstappen’s Red Bull and then did the 2025 Pirelli tests.
