F1: Racing Bulls Finally Confirm Lawson and Lindblad for 2027

Racing Bulls have finally confirmed Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad for 2027, as they should have done a long time ago.

Lawson and Lindblad have combined for 114 points for Racing Bulls this season, lifting the team from a sixth-place finish in 2025 to fifth place in 2026. They're leading Alpine, their nearest midfield rival, by 45 points with only three races left in the calendar. They're almost sure of that fifth-place finish, which will be Racing Bulls' best result since entering Formula 1 as Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2006. 

2026 presented Lawson with a shot for redemption and he took it. After a tumultuous 2025 season when he was sacked from Red Bull Racing after just two races, the Kiwi driver had the opportunity to go back from scratch and start a full season with Racing Bulls this year.

The improvement he made was nothing short of drastic. The numbers tell us why.

Lawson has scored 89 championship points this season, 75 for Racing Bulls and 14 during his brief three-race replacement stint for Isack Hadjar's Red Bull. He currently has the most points of any driver outside the four frontrunning teams.

Moreover, Lawson has scored 65.79% of Racing Bulls' total points this season. He's doing what he's supposed to do: score more points than his rookie teammate, bring the car to the finish line (only 1 DNF this year), and extract the maximum out of his car.

Lindblad is the only rookie on the grid this season, but he's not acting like it. Despite getting outscored by his teammate, the young British driver still has 38 championship points to his name. He opened the season with a P8 finish in Australia, with his best result coming in the form of a P6 performance in Monaco.

It has been a tough recent stretch for the rookie, as he has not scored in the last four races. But Lindblad's strong early-to-midseason form has already shown that he deserves another year in F1. 

And by the way, Lindblad's just 19 years old. He has a lot of room left to grow and improve.

Nikola Tsolov was reportedly in the running for a Racing Bulls seat before the team ultimately decided to retain their current driver lineup. For now, the 19-year-old Bulgarian racing driver will wait on the wings, participate in more testing sessions, collect more Free Practice 1 appearances, and potentially rack up more wins in other series.

Tsolov is currently second in the Formula 2 standings, with two more races left to settle the Drivers' Championship.