Liam Lawson has offered an honest reflection on how his season has started, and in particular his performances since returning to Racing Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The New Zealander had started the F1 season alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull, but was sensationally demoted back to the sister team after just two races.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since returning, things have not gone smoothly for Lawson, for failed to score points in his first five races back with the Faenza-based outfit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He took his time to get back up to speed, whilst rookie team-mate Isack Hadjar was making regular Q3 appearances and scoring consistent points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Lawson’s pace has improved in recent grands prix, in particular on Monaco where he not only made Q3 but also scored points after finishing in eighth.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old recognises that he has been far from perfect in 2025; however, he is certain that himself and the team have been working in the right direction.<\/p>\n
“You’re always learning, and we’re always making mistakes,” Lawson told select media, including RacingNews365<\/strong> in Barcelona. \u00a0<\/p>\n “So I’m not sitting here saying that I’ve done everything perfectly this year, because I haven’t. But, we understand as drivers that it takes a lot for a Formula 1 weekend to run smoothly.\u00a0<\/p>\n “For a session to run smoothly, you’re relying on a lot of variables, and so for me, I’m just focused on making sure I’m doing everything I can.\u00a0<\/p>\n “And it felt like on my side, we were working in a good way, and things more or less outside of our control were not clicking, let’s say. And in Monaco, they did, which is good.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has offered an honest reflection on how his season has started, and in particular his performances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655746048164155","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}