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Behind the meme: The true story behind Liam Lawson’s viral dazed photograph
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Behind the meme: The true story behind Liam Lawson’s viral dazed photograph

Motorsports December 12, 2024
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In case you’ve ever discovered your self on ‘Formulation 1 Twitter,’ there is a excessive probability you have stumbled throughout a viral Liam Lawson photograph. The picture in query exhibits the 22-year-old wanting dazed as he emerges from slumber beneath a quilt with a half-packed suitcase subsequent to his mattress. 

The snap has been utilized in a wide range of humorous contexts: “liam lawson waking as much as discover out he’s an f1 driver once more,” one fan wrote in September when he changed Daniel Ricciardo. Throughout final month’s very wet Brazilian Grand Prix, one other fan captioned the pic, “everything of the f1 grid waking up tomorrow for a 7:30am qualifying session.” A 3rd fan merely wrote, “Guys I must know the story behind THE Liam Lawson image. Who took this? What’s taking place? Why’s he up?” 

 

So, I put my investigative journalism diploma to work for a solution. Fortunately, Lawson and his companion, Hannah St. John, kindly allowed me to hitch a trip with them to the Las Vegas Grand Prix — you possibly can watch the complete video right here — making for a first-rate alternative to ask the VCARB driver concerning the well-known photograph. 

“You imply the one among me wanting like I am completely wasted?” Lawson stated.

“It’s as a result of he was,” St. John chimed in with amusing.

After I described the picture as a throwback, Lawson knowledgeable me, “you realize, I wasn’t younger — that was like three years in the past.” 

“I don’t drink,” he defined. “However I drink annually, and that is on New Yr’s. It was 2021 after the DTM race at Norisring, and after I acquired completely smashed out and misplaced the championship in a extremely horrible manner. That evening, I went out, and I hadn’t drunk all yr — clearly, as a result of I don’t drink — and it was simply not a good suggestion.”

Lawson had no concept that a picture of him wanting, er, somewhat worse for put on, when he wakened the next morning would have such endurance on the web. “My pal took that photograph and I didn’t even know he posted it, however yearly it retains coming again up,” he stated. “This yr it’s come out much more. He [his friend] thinks it’s hilarious, but it surely’s positively not my best second.” 

 

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