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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiam Lawson says he feels for Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLiam Lawson says he feels for Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n
Lawson began 2025 as Max Verstappen\u2019s teammate at Red Bull, but was dropped after just two races and sent back to Racing Bulls in a swap that saw Tsunoda promoted in his place.<\/p>\n
Since then, Lawson has rebuilt his form, scoring 20 points to Tsunoda\u2019s seven \u2014 including points in three of the last four races \u2014 underlining his progress.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the situation, Lawson admitted it was tough to watch Tsunoda endure the same difficulties he faced.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s tricky because when I looked back at how it was for me, I was there two races on two tracks I\u2019d never been to and I think I more look back and think that maybe I was naive to think that I would be given the time to adapt to it,\u201d Lawson told Sky Sports F1.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s really tough. I definitely feel sympathy for a driver that\u2019s struggling in that position because it\u2019s a very very tough sport and it\u2019s never nice to see somebody struggling in an environment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the setback, Lawson insists his dream remains unchanged: becoming Formula 1 world champion, whether or not it is with Red Bull.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe dream I\u2019ve had since I was five years old has been world champion,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has been winning in Formula 1 and reaching the top of the sport, and I think that\u2019s more or less where my dream sits, where my goal is trying to become the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what we\u2019re all working towards. And I think where I do that is not so clear as much as I thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chasing that goal has given Lawson an appreciation of just how high the bar has been set inside Red Bull, particularly by Verstappen.<\/p>\n
He recalled his first experience sharing a track with the Dutchman during his debut weekend at Zandvoort in 2023.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first time ever in F1 was here,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was wet. Max, I let him by and he came around me and I watched the way he just slid the car out to the curb on the exit.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter watching him do that I was just like, I\u2019m just nowhere near that comfortable to slide and I came around the next lap and I spun the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now firmly settled back at Racing Bulls, Lawson says the key is extracting everything from the package each weekend and continuing to build momentum.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou learn things along the way that you go, okay, we\u2019re gonna do this again next week because this worked pretty well for us this week and you learn things about the relationship with your engineer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe understands what you like, communication wise, and it just gets better and it gets more comfortable and you spend less time finding these things out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawson will start the Dutch Grand Prix in 14th place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson says he feels for Yuki Tsunoda at Red Bull. Image: XPB Images Lawson began 2025 as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,3352,918,9910,85,5077],"class_list":["post-107650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-liam-lawson","tag-red-bull","tag-slot2","tag-sports","tag-yuki-tsunoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}