Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson is keen to hitch his System 1 rivals in contesting different racing championships, with Supercars being one collection he’d “love” to strive.
Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll are two drivers to have gone GT racing this 12 months after rising pissed off with the 2026 F1 rules, and Lawson was mooted for one thing comparable.
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Australian outlet MotorRacing 360 reported that the Kiwi had been approached by groups in Supercars to contest the forthcoming New Zealand-based rounds in Taupo and/or Christchurch.
This may have been potential resulting from F1’s enforced April break, however Lawson thinks coming into Australasia’s premier touring automotive collection is one thing for later in his profession.
The 24-year-old advised media together with Motorsport: “I landed in New Zealand, and my cellphone was blown up with, like, ‘oh Liam, you are racing Supercars subsequent week’ and I used to be like, ‘I did not even know I used to be racing Supercars subsequent week’.
“So, I do not actually understand how all people else appears to know that I am racing a supercar subsequent week. However yeah, it was a really cool thought.
“It is clearly a collection that I’ve grown up watching and I’d like to do it in some unspecified time in the future for certain. Clearly, when my life will not be so centered on one factor, perhaps, and I can truly put the time in to arrange for it might be cool. However yeah, clearly no actual fact to that one.”
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It might add to the varied different championships Lawson has entered, having completed runner-up in each DTM (2021) and Tremendous System (2023), plus successful the 2019 New Zealand Grand Prix.
When requested additional if he’d wish to strive extra racing exterior of F1, he replied: “Undoubtedly, I’ve executed it up to now and cherished it. I believe at all times having that degree of adaptability is sweet, I am fortunate that I’ve had the chance to try this since I used to be very younger.
“Supercars, particularly, is one thing I’ve grown up watching and I believe the collection is superb. They do such a superb job to maintain the vehicles uncooked, they nonetheless have V8s naturally aspirated, they’ve sequential gearboxes which they are not going away from, they are not going in the direction of paddle shifts and different issues.
“They’re managing every thing themselves and I believe that is simply such a cool factor and the racing has been actually, actually good as effectively. So I just like the collection so much, it is one thing I’d like to do. I’ve pushed the automotive a few instances and simply had a blast.
“However different collection as effectively, I did DTM just a few years in the past and loved it. Hated the best way it ended,” referring to how he misplaced the title to Maximilian Gotz on the ultimate day, “however I loved the season by way of the 12 months and attending to work with a distinct group in a really, very totally different collection.
“[A driver can] be a bit extra aggressive, throw some dive bombs, slam some doorways, stuff like that, one thing we won’t do an excessive amount of in System 1. So it was good enjoyable, I am at all times attempting to do stuff like that even when it is in numerous sports activities, I am using a mud bike so much as effectively and having fun with it.”
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