{"id":20710,"date":"2025-04-15T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20710\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T01:36:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T01:36:04","slug":"liam-lawson-explains-underlying-reasons-for-penalty-filled-bahrain-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/20710\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson explains underlying reasons for penalty-filled Bahrain GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bahrain GP made for another challenging weekend for Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson, leaving him without any points \u2014 and several penalties \u2014 once again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kiwi has explained that his penalized moves were necessary if he wanted to make up any positions after a DRS issue in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson explains his penalized lunges were necessary<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson\u2019s<\/a> Bahrain Grand Prix woes kicked off qualifying, when a DRS issue saw him knocked out in Q1 and set to line up on the grid at Sakhir in 17th.<\/p>\n

Halfway down the straight on his flying lap, his DRS mechanism shut unexpectedly. The resulting drag cost him roughly half a second and cost him a shot of progressing into Q2.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe speed\u2019s been there all weekend,\u201d he said to media, including PlanetF1.com, after the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a DRS issue in quali, and then just a tough race coming through. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re really lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n

More big takeaways from the Bahrain GP:<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Lando Norris\u2019 data uncovered in scary McLaren pace analysis<\/a><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Bahrain GP conclusions: Lando\u2019s familiar frailties and why Verstappen\u2019s breaking point is bad news for Russell<\/a><\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Lawson, the race proved more challenging than expected, and things were only made all the more difficult by the two penalties he was hit with during the race.<\/p>\n

First came a five-second penalty for causing contact with Aston Martin\u2019s Lance Stroll during the safety car period, followed by a 10-second penalty for causing a collision with Nico Hulkenberg when the race went green again.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom where we were starting, it was going to be hard, but we just got stuck the whole race,\u201d Lawson explained to media.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like the only way you could overtake was by having a lunge from quite far back.\u201d<\/p>\n

That, then, would explain the hail-Mary moves that saw him pushing perhaps beyond the limits of his machinery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need to review the incidents,\u201d he admitted.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really remember too much about them. It\u2019s a shame, but we weren\u2019t on for points, anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kiwi racer sounded frustrated in his post-race interviews, particularly because he noted that \u201cthe biggest shame was that the car was fast all weekend, the car was fast in quali, the car was fast in the race, especially the last 10 on the soft.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just coming from so far back.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Racing Bulls driver also noted that \u201cit wasn\u2019t as easy as maybe people expected\u201d to overtake, which made every ounce of track position critical to securing a good result.<\/p>\n

Still, he admitted that \u201cwe were certainly able to move forward and close in on the back end of the points until we got the penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read next:\u00a0Bahrain GP driver ratings: Perfection for Piastri and messy mistakes for Norris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bahrain GP made for another challenging weekend for Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson, leaving him without any…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4203,4199,707,4200,225,228,12,1084,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-20710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-bahrain-grand-prix","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-home-page","13":"tag-liam-lawson","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-racing-bulls","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710","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=20710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}