Liam Lawson accepts that he should carry out to maintain maintain of his Crimson Bull Formulation 1 seat, however notes that he wants time he would not essentially should get acquainted with the staff’s 2025 automotive.
The Kiwi racer certified final for Sunday’s Chinese language Grand Prix, which Crimson Bull used as a possibility to interrupt parc ferme and equipment him out with a sequence of modifications to his RB21 – and he thus ran totally different aero spec to Max Verstappen. Lawson reckoned that few of those modifications labored out.
He finally completed fifteenth, transferring up two positions late on when Yuki Tsunoda’s entrance wing broke and Jack Doohan was encumbered by a 10-second penalty for nudging Isack Hadjar off the street.
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Lawson says that he wants time to get a better understanding of the RB21; requested to elaborate on time, he defined that with no in-season testing and a triple-header on the horizon, he doesn’t have the luxurious of time behind the wheel to get used to the automotive.
“We knew it was going to be robust and we began from the pitlane to attempt one thing with the automotive, and it sadly simply did not work the way in which we needed,” Lawson mentioned. “What was actually only a onerous weekend was only a bit more durable at the moment.
Nico Hulkenberg, Sauber, Liam Lawson, Crimson Bull Racing
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“Sadly I do not actually have time to get used to it, however I have to determine it out as rapidly. I haven’t got time to check the automotive and get used to it, however we’re within the season already, so every race we’re shedding factors. That is kind of what I imply when I haven’t got time.
“However I am additionally not silly and I do know that, clearly, I am right here to carry out – and if I am not doing that, I am not going to be round. I am simply centered on getting used to the automotive as rapidly as I can.”
Requested the place his deficit to Verstappen was, significantly over a qualifying lap, Lawson defined that the variations over a lap have been typically fairly slim and the important thing factors he lagged behind have been “usually simply a few locations”.
He added that, in the important thing positions the place the RB21 is at its most tempestuous, the Dutchman can get rather more out of it and “be on the restrict in all places”.
Lawson was defiant when requested concerning the concept of Crimson Bull conducting a swap between him and Yuki Tsunoda, which Motorsport.com understands can be a subject of dialogue on the staff forward of the Japanese Grand Prix.
“I’ve raced him for years, raced him in junior classes and beat him – and I did in F1 as nicely, so he can say no matter he desires,” Lawson acknowledged.
Reality test
Yuki Tsunoda, Jenzer Motorsport with Liam Lawson, MP Motorsport
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Lawson beat Tsunoda within the 2019 Euroformula Open championship, ending second in that yr’s championship to Tsunoda’s fourth, however the Japanese driver outscored him in that yr’s F3 championship and earned a transfer as much as F2 forward of Lawson for 2020.
Tsunoda additionally outscored Lawson of their 11 races collectively at AlphaTauri/RB, and outqualified him 10-1 (dash qualifying not included).
Lawson additionally had the sting over Tsunoda of their 2020 Toyota Racing Sequence marketing campaign, ending second forward of Franco Colapinto and his fellow Crimson Bull junior within the New Zealand-based winter championship.
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