Red Bull's brutal demotion of Liam Lawson after just two F1 race weekends is official - but what kind of message does such drastic action send to star driver Max Verstappen?
Lawson has been sent back to Red Bull's second team Racing Bulls, with Yuki Tsunoda replacing him immediately for the next F1 race in Japan, in a bid to help save the team's season.
The fact Red Bull's campaign even needs saving (and that it's acknowledging as much), and that its driver choice required such a dramatic course correction early on, speaks volumes for the problems that Verstappen's team finds itself in.
00:00 Introduction
01:42 Red Bull's logic
04:23 Car development misses
06:35 Will Verstappen buy this?
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