{"id":58056,"date":"2026-05-23T21:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:52:07","slug":"formula-1-liam-lawson-misses-top-10-start-in-canada-by-hundredths-of-a-second-to-start-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/58056\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Liam Lawson misses top 10 start in Canada by hundredths of a second, to start 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said afterwards. \u201cIt was so badly driven.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe it was a bit messy from our side,\u201d his race engineer Alexandre Iliopoulos replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a little bit disappointed,\u201d Lawson said post-qualifying. \u201cThe car\u2019s obviously very quick this weekend, it\u2019s a shame not to put both cars in Q3 – where they honestly should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI struggled with warm-up and some front locking as well. I put a lot of pressure on myself to put it in the last lap. We nearly did it, but not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls have introduced a significant upgrade package<\/a> for the Canadian Grand Prix, evidenced by Lawson\u2019s pace in the sprint, and teammate Arvid Lindblad starting in the top 10 by qualifying ninth.<\/p>\n

At the front of the grid, Mercedes\u2019 George Russell took pole position to go alongside his sprint race victory from earlier in the day. Russell was just 0.068s quicker than teammate Kimi Antonelli, who will start second.<\/p>\n

The pair face an intriguing run into the first corner, after coming wheel to wheel during the sprint, and even forcing team boss Toto Wolff to intervene and tell Antonelli to calm down. Antonelli currently leads the championship, the youngest driver to ever do so.<\/p>\n

McLaren continued its recovery after a slow start to the year, after Lando Norris took third, 0.151s back from Russell, with teammate Oscar Piastri locking out the second row in fourth. <\/p>\n

After missing the entirety of sprint qualifying on Saturday, Lawson wasted no time in getting on track in Q1, attempting to advance.<\/p>\n

By the time all drivers had set a lap, Lawson had posted a lap of 1m 16.117s good enough for 13th place, but just 0.282s clear of safety.<\/p>\n

With plenty of time to improve, the Kiwi did just that, and moved inside the top 10 with a lap of 1m 14.346s to put distance between himself and elimination. <\/p>\n

By the time Q1 ended, that time was good enough for 11th place, and 0.429s clear, albeit 0.451s behind Lindblad, who took seventh in the session. <\/p>\n

Into Q2, where Lawson\u2019s first push lap of 1m 16.71s was deleted for exceeding track limits. And while he was able to improve to 1m 13.897s – his best effort of the weekend – it was agonisingly short of joining his teammate in Q3. <\/p>\n

The Canadian Grand Prix begins at 8am on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Canadian Grand Prix starting grid<\/p>\n

George Russell – MercedesKimi Antonelli – MercedesLando Norris – McLarenOscar Piastri – McLarenLewis Hamilton – FerrariMax Verstappen – Red BullIsack Hadjar – Red BullCharles Leclerc – FerrariArvid Lindblad – Racing BullsFranco Colapinto – AlpineNico Hulkenberg – AudiLiam Lawson – Racing BullsGabriel Bortoleto – AudiPierre Gasly – AlpineCarlos Sainz – WilliamsOllie Bearman – HaasEsteban Ocon – HaasAlex Albon – WilliamsFernando Alonso – Aston MartinSergio Perez – Cadillac Lance Stroll – Aston MartinValtteri Bottas – Cadillac<\/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":"\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said afterwards. \u201cIt was so badly driven.\u201d \u201cMaybe it was a bit messy from our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20171,25253,25256,9132,17,351,25257,24522,25259,24529,25254,4288,25261,25258,24524,24523,25252,8884,24536,24530,25255,5422,25260,3585,23812],"class_list":["post-58056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-20171","tag-25253","tag-12th","tag-by","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-finished","tag-formula","tag-four","tag-grand","tag-hundredths","tag-in","tag-inside","tag-just","tag-lawson","tag-liam","tag-misses","tag-of","tag-ones","tag-prix","tag-second","tag-start","tag-starting","tag-to","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056","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=58056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}