Liam Lawson
CAREER STATS
Liam Lawson’s Career Stats
Liam Lawson's Formula 1 career began in 2023 as a stand-in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri, and he scored his first points at that year's Singapore Grand Prix. He returned to the team in late 2024 and was promoted to Red Bull Racing for 2025, only to lose the seat after two races. Liam Lawson's salary at Racing Bulls is $1m this season, and we put his net worth at $1.3m.
He rebuilt at Racing Bulls, with 5th places in Azerbaijan in 2025 and Monaco in 2026, and returned to Red Bull Racing as Isack Hadjar's stand-in during 2026.
Open Formula 1 results database covering every championship race, qualifying session, sprint and standings table through round 17 of 2026
Official driver profile with career totals (Grands Prix entered, points, podiums, poles, best finish and grid, titles, DNFs) and 2026 season figures
Career totals as of October 16, 2026 (52 Grands Prix, best grid 3rd, best finish 5th, no laps led)
Liam Lawson’s Career in Numbers
Liam Lawson’s 2026 Season
Lawson has been the steadier half of the Racing Bulls lineup in 2026, and he has scored regularly since China, with 5th at Monaco matching his best finish. When Isack Hadjar hurt his wrist, Red Bull Racing called him up for three rounds, and he finished 7th at Zandvoort and 6th in Madrid. Back at Racing Bulls, he took 5th in the Singapore sprint and 7th in the Grand Prix.
Open Formula 1 results database covering every championship race, qualifying session, sprint and standings table through round 17 of 2026
His 2026 race-by-race results and weekend points with team for each round through Bahrain
Lawson moved to Red Bull for the 2026 Dutch GP after Hadjar injured his wrist
Claims Lawson is the first driver removed from the Red Bull seat to earn his way back
Lawson 5th in the sprint (4 points), his best sprint result
Lawson 7th for Racing Bulls (6 points), Lindblad 15th
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01 · The Last Race
Singapore by Salary
Pos
Driver
Pts
Salary
1
Max Verstappen
Red Bull
25
$70m
2
Charles Leclerc
Ferrari
18
$34m
3
Kimi Antonelli
Mercedes
15
$3.4m
4
Lando Norris
McLaren
12
$30m
5
Oscar Piastri
McLaren
10
$13m
6
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What Each Point Now Costs Red Bull
Liam Lawson’s F1 Results Season by Season
Racing Bulls · 2026
9th
75 points so far
- Starts
- 17
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 0
- Poles
- 0
Racing Bulls / Red Bull Racing · 2025
14th
38 points
- Starts
- 24
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 0
- Poles
- 0
RB · 2024
21st
4 points
- Starts
- 6
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 0
- Poles
- 0
AlphaTauri · 2023
20th
2 points
- Starts
- 5
- Wins
- 0
- Podiums
- 0
- Poles
- 0
The 2026 card updates after every race. Earlier seasons are final.
2023
2nd
- Series
- Super Formula
- Team
- Team Mugen
2022
3rd
- Series
- FIA Formula 2 Championship
- Team
- Carlin
2021
9th
- Series
- FIA Formula 2 Championship
- Team
- Hitech Grand Prix
2021
2nd
- Series
- Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM)
- Team
- Red Bull AF Corse
2020
2nd
- Series
- Toyota Racing Series
- Team
- M2 Competition
2020
5th
- Series
- FIA Formula 3 Championship
- Team
- Hitech Grand Prix
2019
1st (champion)
- Series
- Toyota Racing Series
- Team
- M2 Competition
2019
11th
- Series
- FIA Formula 3 Championship
- Team
- MP Motorsport
2019
2nd
- Series
- Euroformula Open Championship
- Team
- Motopark
2019
7th
- Series
- Macau Grand Prix
- Team
- MP Motorsport
2018
2nd
- Series
- ADAC Formula 4 Championship
- Team
- Van Amersfoort Racing
2018
8th
- Series
- F3 Asian Championship
- Team
- Pinnacle Motorsport
2017
1st (champion)
- Series
- NZ F1600 Championship Series (2016-17)
- Team
- Liam Lawson Motorsport
2017
2nd
- Series
- Australian Formula 4 Championship
- Team
- Team BRM
2017
15th
- Series
- Victorian Formula Vee Championship
- Team
- JRD
2017
Finalist
- Series
- Mazda Road to Indy Shootout
- Team
- Lucas Oil School of Racing
2016
6th
- Series
- New Zealand Formula First Championship (2015-16)
- Team
- Sabre Motorsport
2015
2nd
- Series
- Formula First Manfeild Winter Series
- Team
- Sabre Motorsport
AlphaTauri / RB · 2023-2024
Yuki Tsunoda
- Races Together
- 11
- Race Head to Head
- 5-5
- Qualifying Head to Head
- 1-10
- Points
- 6-8
Racing Bulls · 2025
Isack Hadjar
- Races Together
- 22
- Race Head to Head
- 7-14
- Qualifying Head to Head
- 6-16
- Points
- 38-51
Red Bull Racing · 2025-2026
Max Verstappen
- Races Together
- 5
- Race Head to Head
- 1-4
- Qualifying Head to Head
- 0-5
- Points
- 14-72
Racing Bulls · 2026
Arvid Lindblad
- Races Together
- 14
- Race Head to Head
- 9-4
- Qualifying Head to Head
- 9-5
- Points
- 61-32
Head to heads and points count only races both drivers started, with Liam Lawson first.
How Liam Lawson Compares With His Teammates
Lawson has not yet finished a completed season ahead of his main teammate. Yuki Tsunoda outqualified him 10-1 across their 2023 and 2024 races together, though their race head to head ended 5-5. Isack Hadjar was the stronger Racing Bulls driver in 2025 and led 14-7 in races. In 2026 Lawson has led the team against rookie Arvid Lindblad, and he has also had two short stints alongside Max Verstappen.
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Drivers Closest to Liam Lawson on Career Wins
Liam Lawson’s Route to F1
Lawson started karting in New Zealand at six and won national karting titles in 2014. In 2017 he won the NZ F1600 Championship with 14 wins from 15 races, the youngest champion in the series. His 2019 Toyota Racing Series title came the same month he joined the Red Bull Junior Team. In 2021 he won on debut in both Formula 2 and the DTM, and he lost the DTM title by three points after a first-lap clash at the Norisring.
Junior career summary table, karting record, car number story, Red Bull Junior Team date and career narrative
Lawson 2nd on 300 points behind Nick Rowe
Lawson 2nd on 234 points behind Lirim Zendeli
Lawson runner-up on 356 points to Igor Fraga with five wins
EXPLORE THE GRID
Liam Lawson Career Stats FAQs
Liam Lawson’s Grand Prix win tally stands at 0 from 52 starts. His standout results are 5th at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where he qualified 3rd, and 5th at Monaco in 2026.
He won regularly in the junior ranks, including on his debuts in Formula 2 and the DTM in 2021.
Liam Lawson has driven for Red Bull Racing in two spells. He started 2025 as Max Verstappen’s teammate and swapped seats with Yuki Tsunoda after two races.
In 2026 he returned for the Dutch, Italian and Spanish rounds while Isack Hadjar recovered from a wrist injury, and he finished 7th at Zandvoort and 6th in Madrid.
Liam Lawson has not won a Formula 1 title, and his best completed season is 2025, when he finished 14th. In 2026 he is 9th in the standings on 75 points.
His junior titles include the 2017 NZ F1600 Championship and the 2019 Toyota Racing Series, and he lost the 2021 DTM title by three points.
Liam Lawson made his Formula 1 debut at the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix for AlphaTauri, standing in for the injured Daniel Ricciardo, and finished 13th from 19th on the grid. He scored his first points with 9th in Singapore three weeks later.
He has made 52 Grand Prix starts since then.
Liam Lawson races with number 30, which he has used since he was eight in honor of his karting mentor. Wikipedia names that mentor as Ken Smith, a three-time New Zealand Grand Prix winner.
During his 2023 stand-in drives he used 40, AlphaTauri’s reserve driver number.