# Motorsport: Red Bull has confirmed speculation that Yuki Tsunoda is replacing Liam Lawson as the Formula One team’s number two driver with immediate effect. This follows after the New Zealander didn’t impress in the first two Grands Prix of the season. Twenty-four-year-old Tsunoda will partner reigning world champion Max Verstappen of the Netherlands from the next race in his home country of Japan in the first weekend of April. Lawson returns to Red Bull’s second team, Racing Bulls, where he will partner French debutant Isack Hadjar.
Motorsport: Red Bull confirms Tsunoda replaces Lawson in Formula One