Racing Bulls' Lawson Reinstated in Podium Shake-Up

Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar has inherited the final step on the podium, as the reshuffled result hands the rookie his first top-three finish since stepping up from sister team Racing Bulls at the start of the season.

Oscar Piastri is pulled along in the shake-up too. The McLaren driver climbs from fifth to fourth, having taken an in-race penalty that Pierre Gasly initially escaped before the stewards’ intervention flipped the order after the flag.

The real winners sit in the midfield.

Racing Bulls, locked in a season-long arm wrestle with Alpine, walk away from the ruling with a huge boost. Liam Lawson, who had seen his hard-earned fifth place knocked back to sixth in the immediate aftermath, gets his original result reinstated. It’s not just pride. It’s his best finish of the year.

Lawson’s tally nudges up from 49 to 51, while Gasly’s drops sharply from 44 to 35.

In a tight scrap to finish ninth in the drivers’ standings – effectively “best of the rest” outside the top four teams – that’s a heavy blow for Alpine and a timely lift for Racing Bulls’ rising Kiwi.

The ripple effect doesn’t stop there. Arvid Lindblad also moves up a place, from seventh to sixth, squeezing yet more value from the revised classification. On the constructors’ table, those combined gains stretch Racing Bulls’ advantage over Alpine to 14 points in the fight for fifth – a position that carries serious prestige and prize money.

All of it sets the stage for a tense weekend at Monza, where both teams know one big result could redraw the picture again.

Racing Bulls, though, will have to attack the Italian Grand Prix without one of their form men. Lawson has been promoted to Red Bull duty to stand in for the injured Hadjar, trading his midfield dogfight for a rare shot in the front-running machinery.