Lawson and Lindblad Keep Their Racing Bulls Seats for 2027

Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad will both stay at Racing Bulls in 2027, the team has confirmed through the BBC. The pairing stays intact after Red Bull considered a change at the second seat.

Racing Bulls is Red Bull's sister team, a second garage that develops young drivers for the main squad. Its team principal, Alan Permane, runs the operation day to day. For 2027, the line-up will be unchanged.

Red Bull had looked at promoting Nikola Tsolov, a Bulgarian driver and a front-runner in Formula 2, the championship that feeds into F1. Tsolov would have replaced Lawson. Red Bull decided against it, and Tsolov is expected to remain with the company in a reserve role, doing simulator work and testing previous-year cars.

Lawson, 24, from New Zealand, has had a stop-start run at the top team. He was promoted to Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen for the 2025 season, then dropped back to Racing Bulls after two races. He returned to Red Bull for the Dutch, Italian and Spanish Grands Prix while Isack Hadjar recovered from a broken wrist.

Lindblad is 19, British, and made his F1 debut this season. Racing him has been a useful measure for Lawson. According to the BBC, Lawson has out-qualified his team-mate 13 times to nine this season, and has scored more than twice as many points. Qualifying decides the starting grid, so those 13 Saturdays matter as much as the Sunday results.

For Lindblad, a second season alongside an experienced team-mate gives him more time to learn the car and its tyres, the rubber compounds that decide how fast a driver can go and for how long. For Lawson, it means a clear run at showing the top team what he can do. Neither change is happening, which is itself a decision Red Bull has made.

Racing Bulls has not yet named its line-up for the start of the 2027 championship beyond these two drivers, so the first real test will come when the new season begins.