{"id":166681,"date":"2025-06-08T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166681\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T04:10:10","slug":"liam-lawson-finds-key-racing-bulls-fix-after-wasted-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/166681\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson finds key Racing Bulls fix after ‘wasted’ drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson believes he knows the key to addressing what he termed as a\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cwasted\u201d performance at the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lawson has endured a torrid start to the F1 2025 campaign, with a rapid promotion to the Red Bull senior team before being dropped back to Racing Bulls in favour of Yuki Tsunoda.<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson highlights qualifying performance as key to race reversal<\/p>\n

At the time, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner stated he had a duty of care to the young New Zealander whose confidence appeared to nosedive during his two events alongside Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n

In seven races with Racing Bulls this season, Lawson has managed four points, all coming courtesy of an eighth-place finish in Monaco as he and team-mate Isack Hadjar controversially worked to delay the field to secure their results.<\/p>\n

During their time together at the Faenza-squad, Hadjar has overshadowed his more experienced colleague with five points-paying results, including three in a row across F1\u2019s most recent triple-header.<\/p>\n

\u201cQualifying has not been strong enough for us in general,\u201d Lawson reflected.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe missed out in Monaco, and we\u2019ve missed out [in Spain], and it\u2019s put us in positions where we\u2019re fighting cars that we\u2019re faster than.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels wasted,\u201d he said of his drive in Spain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was so fast; we\u2019re really fast in the long run.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawson was 13th on the grid in Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, racing forward to 11th, though one of those positions came courtesy of Andrea Kimi Antonelli\u2019s retirement.<\/p>\n

The Safety Car triggered by the Italian\u2019s failed Mercedes power unit proved a decisive factor in the final classification.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe missed the Safety Car line by half a second, maybe, so that\u2019s just unfortunate,\u201d Lawson said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe lost so much time on the Safety Car that basically everybody was able to start pushing and we had to just sit behind for four laps.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we could have boxed, we probably should have boxed the first lap when the Safety Car came out, but in that situation, sometimes you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Liam Lawson from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n

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The Spanish GP was a combative one for the 23-year-old, who had clashes with Alex Albon and Oliver Bearman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was trying to overtake how it\u2019s written in the rule book,\u201d Lawson said of his battle with Albon.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was making sure to get my front wheels ahead at the apex, which they were, just.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t even feel the contact there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe caught him [at] a second a lap,\u201d he added of the exchange with Bearman, which occurred as the leaders approached to lap the pair.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs much as that contact there was completely on me, the lap afterwards he\u2019s still fighting me super hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re here to race, so there\u2019s nothing I can do about it, but for sure, we lose race time, both of us, like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those scraps are evidence of the underlying issue: Lawson is qualifying too far back, which, in turn, forces him to race through the field.<\/p>\n

The net result is time lost in traffic, and a finishing position further back than might otherwise have been possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe race pace has been really good,\u201d Lawson said of his experience across the Imola-Monaco-Spain triple-header.<\/p>\n

\u201cRace pace [in Spain] was good; we\u2019re killing our tyres behind cars and then still having good speed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think these regulations have potentially suited us a little bit, which he quite cool,\u201d he added of the flexible wing clampdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, we\u2019ve only been to one track, so we\u2019ll wait and see how they are around the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n

The F1 circus heads next to the Canadian Grand Prix, a venue at which Lawson has never driven but nonetheless has high hopes for.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car was strong there last year, especially for Daniel [Ricciardo], so we\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

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