Liam Lawson is once again set to fill the role of injury substitute in F1 as he steps up to Red Bull for this weekend's Dutch Grand Prix, replacing Isack Hadjar.
The Frenchman has been ruled out of the Zandvoort race having sustained a wrist injury whilst training in the gym last week, and has not been declared medically fit for the final Dutch GP.
It has been decided that Lawson will step back into the Red Bull team for the weekend following his impressive first-half of the season, with Yuki Tsunoda set to come in for the New Zealander alongside Arvid Lindblad.
For Lawson, it is the second time in four years he will have made an injury substitution at Zandvoort, making his F1 debut in 2023 after Daniel Ricciardo's practice crash in 2023 broke his hand and wrist.
In the table below, RacingNews365 has taken a look at the last 10 injury substitutions in F1, including for world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, who both missed grands prix due to COVID-19 diagnoses.
Of the last 10, five were for COVID-19, two were for appendicitis, one was for hand and wrist, one for burns, and one was for illness.
Check out the table below!
Last 10 injury replacements in F1
| Driver injured | Driver replacement | Type of injury | Races |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Sainz | Oliver Bearman | Appendicitis | Australia 2024 |
| Daniel Ricciardo | Liam Lawson | Wrist/hand | Dutch-Qatar 2023 |
| Alex Albon | Nyck de Vries | Appendicitis | Italy 2022 |
| Sebastian Vettel | Nico Hulkenberg | COVID-19 | Australia-Saudi Arabia 2022 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | Robert Kubica | COVID-19 | Dutch-Italy 2021 |
| Romain Grosjean | Pietro Fittipaldi | Burns - Bahrain 2020 | Sakhir-Abu Dhabi 2020 |
| Lewis Hamilton | George Russell | COVID-19 | Sakhir 2020 |
| Lance Stroll | Nico Hulkenberg | COVID-19 | Eifel 2020 |
| Sergio Perez | Nico Hulkenberg | COVID-19 | British-70th Anniversary 2020 |
| Felipe Massa | Paul di Resta | Ill | Hungary 2017 |
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