Liam Lawson will become a fre🌠e agent next year, and Helmut Marko admits it would be “exciting” to see him ꧟in F1 this season.

That revelation puts the position of the under-performing 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo under even more pressure ahead of this weekend’s F1 Chinese Grand Prix.

Lawson impressed as a deputy for the injured Ricciardo for AlphaTaur𓃲i last season but was then overlooked for a full-time drive.

But his future could now be outside of the Red Bull or RB set-up because he 🅷is able to sign for another F1 teaꦺm in 2025.

Re🍒d Bull advisor Marko was asked if he couldꦰ rule out a driver swap mid-season in the RB team, to give Lawson a go.

Marko told  : “Of cour🃏se, with Liam Lawson as reserve driver, we have a strong dr🍃iver in the team who is contractually entitled to drive for another team if he does not get a cockpit with us in 2025.

“In thi𓄧s r🌊egard, it would of course be exciting for us if we could see him in Formula 1 this year to get an even clearer picture.

“But this is a complex topic and we have to se🌸♛e what happens next.”

🙈The🌜 poor form of Ricciardo has created the talking point about Lawson replacing him mid-season.

Ricciardo was himself a mid-season replacement for the struggling Nﷺyck de Vries last year.

Ricciardo entered 2024 with hopes of claimin🐓g the Red Bull drive, alongside Max Verstappen, next year but now finds himself just trying to cling ont🐲o his current position.

Teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Yuki Tsunoda has outshone Ricciardo for RB so far.

“Yuki ha൲d a grea🧸t start to the season and is no longer the hot runner he once was,” Marko said.

“Ther🔯e have only been four races, so you can't say much yet.

“But he has Daniel under c𓂃ontrol, even 💦if it was close in Japan.

“The challenge for [Ricciardo] was that he clearly had to be ✨faster than Yuki if he wanted to have any hope of winning the seat🐬 at Red Bull.

“That hasn't been the case so far, even if, as I said, it was close. W𝄹e'll see how this develops.🅰”

Marko also moved to shut down any rumours that Red Bull could se🎀ll 🌱their sister team, the recently rebranded RB.

“I really don't ♌🅘understand where these things keep coming from,” he said.

“Everything ha🥀s been clarified and fixed with the shareholders.”