Liam Lawson has claimed Sergio Perez fights him “prefer it’s for the world championship”, after the pair aggressively battled in System 1’s Australian Grand Prix.
Lawson dropped from eighth to 18th on lap one after failing to deploy his engine’s energy for 5 seconds, which brought on a frightful near-miss with Franco Colapinto; he then pitted below the primary digital security automotive however ended up behind Perez’ Cadillac, who was as much as 14th.
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Famend for his defensive abilities, Perez pushed Lawson off the monitor on the exit of Flip 3 – which he was entitled to do in response to the driving pointers, because the Racing Bulls, on the skin, was not forward on the apex.
Lawson ultimately discovered a well beyond Perez on the within in Flip 11, with slight contact between the pair because the Mexican turned in sooner than the Kiwi.
In response to Lawson, Perez was performing out of resentment following their battle within the 2024 Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
On the time, Lawson fought tooth and nail when attacked by the Crimson Bull driver because the latter tried to recuperate from a lowly 18th place in qualifying, in a tough context when his future alongside Max Verstappen was at stake. Perez had known as on Lawson to be “extra humble”.
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Sixteen months later, with Perez again in F1 after certainly shedding his Crimson Bull seat, Lawson believes there’s a transparent connection between the 2 incidents.
“Two years later he isn’t over it, so he is preventing me prefer it’s for the world championship and we’re like P16,” Lawson rued. “I imply, clearly I do not actually care an excessive amount of, my race was already over at that time, so we’ll transfer on.”
Liam Lawson, Racing Bulls
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Requested by Motorsport if he was stunned that the stewards declared the incident warranted no additional motion, Lawson mentioned: “It was nothing unlawful, he was simply aggressive. There was nothing to… truthfully I do not care, it is for P16.”
In the meantime, Perez insisted he was simply having “a little bit of enjoyable” in an in any other case tough afternoon on Cadillac’s grand prix debut.
“No, I imply, for me it was simply racing. It was a little bit of enjoyable racing and that is actually it. I used to be in a a lot slower automotive, so I feel it is simply advantageous to race,” Perez mentioned after ending sixteenth, three laps down and 2m04s behind Lawson.
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