Tost: "Yuki is much faster than Lawson"

Yuki Tsunoda replaced Liam Lawson after two Grand Prix races at the Formula 1 World Championship. Lawson was relegated to Racing Bulls and Tsunoda moved up to Red Bull. A decision that could have been avoided, in the opinion of Franz Tost, former AlphaTauri team leader. “The fastest? Tsunoda from the start,” began by saying Tost, who worked with Tsunoda on the Red Bull satellite team. “I already said that and I made it clear last year. Yuki is m…

The change of teams between Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson that Red Bull has already applied after only two races of F1’s 2025 season continues to give rise to talk, and the last to do so has been Franz Tost. Although he has done so as commentator of the Austrian television channel ORF, he is the former director of the AlphaTauri team, current Racing Bulls. There, until the end of 2023, he agreed with Tsunoda and also in the first Lawson races in …

Tost: "Yuki is much faster than Lawson"

Former VCARB (formerly AlphaTauri) team principal Franz Tost hasn't minced his words about Tsunoda and Lawson's Red Bull swap.

Cockpit-Zoff at Red Bull: former team leader Franz Tost speaks out unequivocally for Yuki Tsunoda. Why he calls the Japanese for the much better choice.