Four F1 drivers have yet to finish ahead of their teammate in a Grand Prix this season. And it’s a particularly damning statistic for one member of that list.
Yuki Tsunoda unsurprisingly features after stepping up from Racing Bulls to partner Max Verstappen at Red Bull. Tsunoda has typically scrapped in the lower reaches of the points while his teammate targets victory, an increasingly familiar trend at Milton Keynes.
Elsewhere, George Russell is 6-0 up on Kimi Antonelli when both drivers finish the race. Antonelli, who retired from Sunday’s race at Imola, isn’t expected to beat the far more experienced Russell just yet.
| TEAM | RACE H2H |
| McLaren | PIA 4-3 NOR |
| Ferrari | LEC 5-1 HAM |
| Red Bull | VER 5-0 TSU |
| Mercedes | RUS 6-0 ANT |
| Aston Martin | ALO 5-0 STR |
| Alpine | GAS 1-0 COL |
| Haas | OCO 3-2 BEA |
| Racing Bulls | HAD 4-0 LAW |
| Williams | ALB 4-1 SAI |
| Sauber | HUL 3-1 BOR |
Fernando Alonso continues to dominate Lance Stroll at Aston Martin. Stroll may have scored all 14 of the team’s points, but that disguises the reality that Alonso is 5-0 ahead with DNFs excluded.
The biggest surprise is that Liam Lawson is in this group. Lawson has exactly three times as much experience as teammate Isack Hadjar (18 starts vs six), but he hasn’t beaten the Frenchman on a Sunday since his demotion.
Liam Lawson is now certain to lose his Racing Bulls seat at the end of 2025
According to a report from sport.de, the decision-makers at Red Bull will ‘certainly’ remove Lawson at the end of the season. They believe his performances aren’t ‘up to scratch’.
It was perhaps unrealistic to demand Lawson’s best form after a morale-shattering demotion. But he’s not shown any sign of asserting himself against Hadjar.
At Imola, Lawson qualified 15th and finished 14th while his teammate reached Q3 and held onto an impressive ninth place. The New Zealander’s averages since returning to the Faenza squad make for bleak reading (14.4 in qualifying, 14.75 in the races).
He hasn’t scored a point this season, and he doesn’t look particularly close to doing so. ‘Nobody is talking about’ Lawson anymore, and while that may sound like a positive in a high-pressure environment, it could suggest that Christian Horner and co. have lost hope.
Red Bull have changed their mind about Liam Lawson in the space of two weeks
After two short stints at the sister team, Lawson finally started 2025 as a full-time driver at Red Bull. But his humiliating failure cast his F1 future into immediate doubt.
Internally, Red Bull don’t see Lawson making a comeback. And that would be the only reason to keep him around.
Arvid Lindblad is the standout option to replace Lawson for 2026. The 17-year-old is fifth in the F2 standings after the first four rounds.
Just 11 days ago, F1 Oversteer learned that Red Bull were still satisfied with Lawson. It appears they saw something at Imola that changed their minds.
