{"id":56735,"date":"2026-05-22T21:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/56735\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:29:19","slug":"formula-1-liam-lawson-ruled-out-of-canada-sprint-qualifying-as-hydraulic-leak-ruins-kiwis-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/56735\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Liam Lawson ruled out of Canada sprint qualifying as hydraulic leak ruins Kiwi\u2019s car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furthermore, while there was no on-track punishment, Racing Bulls were also fined just under $60,000 after Lawson\u2019s clutch disengagement system (CDS) did not activate. <\/p>\n

However, the FIA\u2019s ruling also found that the marshal was pushing the wrong button when attempting to activate the CDS.<\/p>\n

The clutch disengagement system is integral to the safe removal of a car by marshals. It allows a crashed or stopped car to have its clutch disengaged by stewards without the engine running.<\/p>\n

If found to be in breach of the FIA\u2019s Article C9.3, Lawson could be handed a punishment by the stewards to carry into sprint qualifying, if not the race itself.<\/p>\n

The issues are just the latest for Lawson, who was forced out of the Miami Grand Prix earlier this month<\/a>, after a mechanical failure left him unable to avoid contact with Alpine\u2019s Pierre Gasly, and the resulting crash ended both drivers\u2019 races. <\/p>\n

Lawson wasn\u2019t the only driver to be forced out of sprint qualifying either. Williams\u2019 Alex Albon also suffered terminal damage in practice, after he ran over a groundhog and hit the wall at the chicane between turn six and seven, with that damage also too much to overcome. <\/p>\n

MORE TO COME<\/p>\n

Alex Powell<\/a> is a sports journalist for the NZ Herald. He has been a sports journalist since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Furthermore, while there was no on-track punishment, Racing Bulls were also fined just under $60,000 after Lawson\u2019s clutch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20171,3826,3821,24849,24850,24526,17,6250,2428,24522,24844,24847,24524,24848,24845,24523,8884,24841,4149,24823,24843,22335,24846,24840,24830,24842,24851,24852],"class_list":["post-56735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-20171","tag-after","tag-as","tag-before","tag-began","tag-bulls","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-damage","tag-formula","tag-hydraulic","tag-kiwis","tag-lawson","tag-lawsons","tag-leak","tag-liam","tag-of","tag-out","tag-over","tag-practice","tag-qualifying","tag-racing","tag-ruins","tag-ruled","tag-session","tag-sprint","tag-suffered","tag-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}