Plenty of column inches have been devoted to Red Bull's choice of its second driver for 2025. But Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda are no strangers to being pitched against each other – they first faced off in the 2019 Euroformula Open series.
“If you have two Red Bull cars, you have kind of a magnet in between them and they always come together at a regular rate!” Motopark boss Timo Rumpfkeil is chuckling about his year running both Liam Lawson and Yuki Tsunoda in the 2019 Euroformula Open series, where they locked horns five years before they would be at war again, this time for the seat alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull in Formula 1.
Tsunoda and Lawson's tangle at Spa was the nadir of the Motopark team's year and a learning exercise for both hard chargers Photo by: Euroformula Open “So there were a lot of things they needed to learn. For Liam it was the biggest chance for him. For Yuki, enjoying the Honda support, I think he was a bit more comfortable and secure.
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