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Lawson to replace Vips as Red Bull F1 reserve

Red Bull Racing have promoted F2 young bull Liam Lawson to the role of reserve driver with the F1 team following the ousting of Juri Vips from the energy drink company's driver programme. Red Bull terminated its contract with Vips following its investigation into a moment of bad judgement by the Estonian driver when he used the N-word during a live stream of a video game on Twitch. Lawson, a two-time winner in the FIA Formula 2 Championship and who currently races with Carlin in the series, also inherits a reserve role with Scuderia AlphaTauri, Red Bull's sister F1 outfit. "Well Liam Lawson steps into that role, obviously following the Juri Vips announcement," Red Bull team boss...
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