Red Bull Racing and Sergio Perez have reached an agreement to part ways effective immediately, ending their four-year partnership.

Perez finished a mammoth 285 points behind Verstappen in 2024, not picking up a podium since the Chinese Grand Prix back in April, while Verstappen cruised to a fourth championship success.

Yuki Tsunoda will represent experience and continuity at Racing Bulls next year but, passed over for promotion, the Japanese looks to be running out of road at the Red Bull-owned Formula One team.

Liam Lawson will replace Sergio Perez at Red Bull next season, after the team agreed to part ways with the Mexican a year earlier than planned.

Surely Yuki Tsunoda believed this would be his time for the highly coveted promotion. Four years behind him at Red Bull’s sister team, with a record 12 Q3 progressions in 2024, the popular Japanese driver believes he is entering his primetime years at 24.

One day after dropping Sergio Perez, Red Bull Racing officially picked 22-year-old Liam Lawson to be Max Verstappen's teammate next season.

Red Bull faced a difficult decision that would impact at least three different drivers. Did it make the right one?

Perez had not won a race since April 2023, even as his teammate Max Verstappen has dominated F1, and was rarely competitive this season.

After Sergio Perez announced his Red Bull exit, the team has moved to confirm Liam Lawson as his successor. And so, after two super-sub stints with the Red Bull second team, Lawson will be next to take on the challenge of being team-mate to four-time World Champion Max Verstappen.