3 F1 drivers who are in danger of losing their seats

The 2025 F1 season had all but two teams coming in with different driver line-ups. In what was a stark contrast to what we've seen in 2024, it was a sweeping change for sure. There was, however, an expectation as well that what we see next in the sport is stability for some time.

It was expected that there wouldn't be many driver changes or movements from one team to another. As it turns out, that expectation was just completely off the mark. 9 races into the season, and we've seen two drivers getting dropped.

Liam Lawson and Jack Doohan are the two who lost the vote of confidence very early in life in F1. The Kiwi was moved from Red Bull to Racing Bulls, while the Aussie was dropped from Alpine.

As a result, when we look at the trigger-happy nature of the grid, it's often hard to predict what's next. With that being said, there are a few drivers on the grid whose future is still not secure, and they could face the ax by the end of the season. Who are they? Let's take a look.

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#3 Yuki Tsunoda(Racing Bulls)

Things might appear decent for Yuki Tsunoda right now, as Red Bull has committed the entire 2025 F1 season to him, but there's nothing set in stone after that. The Japanese driver started the season impressively, but he's slowly falling deeper and deeper into the same hole that consumed Liam Lawson and Sergio Perez.

The problem for Yuki is that the Red Bull-Honda partnership will come to an end in 2025. There's nothing beyond this, and hence the Austrian team could take a call and drop the driver. Tsunoda should more or less complete the next 15 races and do a decent job as well.

However, it would be foolish not to keep an eye on Red Bull and its decision-making unit if Tsunoda also spirals just like his predecessors did.

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#2 Franco Colapinto(Alpine F1)

Franco Colapinto's second introduction to F1 has been below par, to say the least. To add to it, this has also been a bit of a surprise. Colapinto's first run last season with Williams was brilliant. He stepped into the car as a replacement for Logan Sargeant and was instantly getting the job done.

So much so, that he even gave Alex Albon a bit of a headache while he was there. Things have changed now, as in his second innings in F1, he's gone to Alpine. He is, for the lack of a better word, "Flavio Briatore's chosen one." The Italian has built his career in the sport by finding the next big things early and then building a team around them.

Unfortunately for Flavio, it always just comes down to performance. He would back a driver, but if the results aren't there, he would not take much time to drop them. Franco is in that situation right now. It has been an underwhelming start to life at Alpine for the Argentinian, and if improvements aren't on their way soon enough, Briatore would not think twice before getting rid of him.

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#1 Liam Lawson(Racing Bulls)

One just has to wonder how bad things have turned out for Liam Lawson since the start of the year. The Kiwi was on cloud nine by the time the 2024 F1 season ended. In 2025, within two races, he was dropped by Red Bull and demoted to Racing Bulls. At the junior team, he has been unable to truly stamp his authority, and that has surely left something to be desired.

What is certainly not helping right now is the surge of the young Brit Arvid Lindblad in F2. The teenager already has a superlicense with him, as the FIA has given him an exemption. While that is the case, there's a bigger question at play here. If Liam Lawson doesn't improve and start stamping his authority over Isack Hadjar, it's a realistic possibility that he will lose his F1 seat for 2025 and have nowhere to go afterward.

In the entire list, the Kiwi is maybe the driver that is the most in danger when it comes to having an insecure future.