D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Liam Lawson reportedly being dropped by Red Bull

Speculation about Liam Lawson's Red Bull future is picking up speed with the Formula One team reportedly dropping the New Zealander ahead of next week's Japanese Grand Prix.

Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf is claiming Racing Bulls driver Yuki Tsunoda is in line to replace Lawson.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy's head with sport.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey Darcy, no comment, don't worry, we can stick to
the bars. Liam Lawson, how's that? You've got Cameron George
on tonight by the way, on the Warriors.

Speaker 3 (00:11):
Yeah. Bob McMurray is going to join us Formula one
Man thirty years at McLaren to talk about what happens
now with Liam, if there's any truth to the room
or how it develops, why is the car so undrivable?
So on and so forth, and then Cameron George joins
us afterward to talk about the release of Dylan Walkers
to go back to his family. He's got kids over there.

(00:33):
He tried super hard to stick around, but at the
end he's like, I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Liam Lawson. The we don't yet know if it's true. Right.
This is the Dutch newspaper reporting smoke fire. But the
Dutch newspaper's pretty reliable, isn't.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
It when it comes to issues of Red Bull. Yes,
they are, probably because there's a dutchman who's won four
championships in a row called Max for stepping. So if
you're going to believe anyone, you look to that report
and say, yes, it seems a tad trigger happy from
Red Bull, but this is not out of character for

(01:10):
that team at all.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
I mean it's hard looking at it as a Kiwi.
You know, it's man that sucks if this is going
to happen. But at the same time, I mean, it's
a pretty ruthless sporter.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Another one is incredibly tough. A lot of the guys
that get in there bought their way in anyway. They
aren't drive. Daddy's got a pot of money. And the
ones that do actually get in there because they've got
driving ability, it can't throat right the way through. Look,
I understand if they say we're going to give the
drive to Yuki Sonoda because Honda give him a whole

(01:42):
lot of money. They give a lot of money to
have them engaged in that, and it is a home track,
it is Suzuka, the fans be there black I can
see that. What I'm interested in is what happens to
Lin if they pull that trigger. Does he get put
back to the Racing Bulls car which he Snoda is
currently driving, or is he drop kicked out of the

(02:04):
sport altogether. Now that would be brutal if they just
drop him back to racing balls. That's that's not a
bad car. It's easy to drive. It looks like a
telling okay with him and hadjab but yeah, for him
to be ejected right out the back. I don't even
think Red Bull are capable of making a move like
that because that'll make them look quite stupid.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, you know, well it's it's a bit of an
indictment on them, isn't it the fact that that.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
If this is true?

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, Darcy, so tonight you've got Cam George and you're
also doing Liam Lawson.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah with Bob McMurray want limb on, but he's almost untouchable.
It was like, you know, since he became a Formula
one dude, you just can't get anywhere near him, which
is understandable. I'm not irate at all. One of these days,
I'm sure we'll get Liam Lawson on the program. But
you're waiting for that decision when it comes out. I
don't know whether they ain't coming. I got no idea.
If they're going to do something, they'd probably do it

(02:56):
Thursday night, Friday morning before it all starts and.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Sus Nice will see tonight at seven twenty one minutes
after four News talks Hebb. Someone says, bless him, blessing
for Liam who drives an F one car. Anyway, well,
it's quite a lucrative thing to do. And by the way,
the salary I was told the salary he was getting
from and the junior for the junior racket was only
about sixty thousand New Zealand dollars a year.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
They got pay for a lot of it as well.
Sorry to keep interrupting, I couldn't leave the studio. He's
not earning a great deal as old man on the
other day and said, look is he bought your house,
because you know, he sold his.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
House and I bought his career.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
And he goes, oh no, no, no, certainly not.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Still massively in debt, right, Darcy, It's time to leave
for real now. Darcy water Grave with the After seven.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
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