Liam Lawson will become a free agent next yeaಌr, 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 de💫puty for the injured Ricciardo for AlphaTauri😼 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 abl⛎e to sign for anoth🥃er F1 team in 2025.

Red Bull advisor Marko was asked if he could rule out a driver swap mid-s♛e❀ason in the RB team, to give Lawson a go.

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

“In this regard, it would of course beꦍ 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 see w🤪hat happen𒀰s next.”

The poor form of Ricciardo has c💯reated the talking point about Lawson replacing him mid-season.

Ricciardo was himself a mid-season replacement for the struggling🌸 Nyck de Vries last𝔉 year.

Ricciardo entered 2024 with hopes of claiming the Red Bull drive, alongs💧ide Max Verst𝔉appen, next year but now finds himself just trying to cling onto 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 had a great start to the season and is no 🎃longer the hot runner h🌜e once was,” Marko said.

“There have only been four races, so you cꦦan't say much yet.

“But he has Daniel under control, even if it was cl🥀ose in Japan.

“The ch💛allen꧂ge 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'tཧ been the case s💃o far, even if, as I said, it was close. We'll see how this develops.”

Marko also moved to shut down any rumours that Red Bull could sell thei🐬r sister team,꧅ the recently rebranded RB.

“I really don't understand whe🌞re these things keep coming from,” he said.

“Everything has been clarified and⛄ fixed with the shareholders.”