New Delhi, Nov. 12 -- FAENZA, Italy - Liam Lawson has turned a run of strong results into another season at Racing Bulls, with the team retaining him alongside Arvid Lindblad for 2027 rather than opening a race seat for another Red Bull junior. Thursday's announcement ends the uncertainty over Lawson's future while giving his rookie team-mate a second year in familiar surroundings.

Both drivers have extended their contracts. The decision follows Lawson's third-place start and seventh-place finish at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, his fourth seventh-place result in five Grands Prix, as Racing Bulls tries to hold fifth in the Constructors' Championship.

That is the immediate sporting stake behind an unchanged line-up. Keeping a productive driv...