Alex Albon will contest select Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters (DTM) events alongside his role as ൩reserve✃ driver for the Red Bull Formula 1 team in 2021.

The 24-year-old Thai racer will take part in DTM events 🅰that do not clash with his commitments as a test and simulator driver for the F1 team.

Albon was replaced as Max Verstap🐈pen’s teammate at Red Bull by Sergio Perez for the 2021 season following a difficult first full-season at the team, leaving ﷺhim without a seat on the F1 grid.

Red Bull Rac🦹ing junior driver Lꦡiam Lawson will also race in the DTM series this year.

The 18-year-old, who won the 2019 Toyota Racing Series cha𝓰mpionship, finished fifth in the FIA Formuไla 3 standings during his second season in the series, claiming three victories for Hitech Grand Prix.

Following his sophomore campaign in FIA F3, Lawson will make the switch to Germany’s premier🍨 touring car category for th🦩e upcoming 2021 season.

"The DTM with a high-class field and GT3 sports cars is an interesting platform and a real challenge, both for successful race drivers lik🗹e Alex Albon as for our Red Bull junior driver Liam Lawson," said Red Bull motorsport꧑ boss Helmut Marko.

DTM boss Gerhard♕ Berger added: “Formula 1 drivers like Alex Albon, DTM stars like three-time champion René Rast, GT professionals and young talents like Liam Lawson – that is a high-class driver mix the way I would like it for theไ 2021 DTM season.

“It is also a perfect fit tꦕhat ex-Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button has already submitted an entry for the DTM with his team.”

Having scrapped its previous Class One regulations, DTM will switch to a GT3-based approach for the 20🌞21 season, which is due to get underway in early May in Russia, the first of nine rounds.