Piastri crashing<\/a> into the barrier with 3m 41s remaining, leaving just one opportunity for the drivers to improve their times.<\/p>\n\u201cHonestly I can\u2019t even remember what happened, it was so busy,\u201d Lawson summarised. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect it to be like that, honestly. The car has been good all weekend and when it needed to be in Quali, it was good so a massive thanks to the guys and girls. The team\u2019s been amazing this weekend so far, but obviously tomorrow is the important day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always sketchy because you see the rain coming on your visor and you can feel it, and you can kind of see the gloss on the track, but because the tyres are still warm you have grip. You\u2019re trying to fight your brain and not back off and keep pushing. It\u2019s definitely tricky.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a very hard race. We have a great starting position but obviously we\u2019re aware of who we\u2019re fighting around us, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen was not the only driver to jump up the timesheets as both Mercedes, Yuki Tsunoda, and Lando Norris cut down their times marginally, demoting Hadjar to eighth place by the end of the disrupted session.<\/p>\n
Having made his mark as a rookie with consistently impressive Qualifying results, he was underwhelmed by his performance, especially with his team mate shining in the top three.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt was tricky. We handled it perfectly until the final corner of the final lap. That\u2019s it. The car is fast, but we are not supposed to be starting eighth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson achieved the best Qualifying result of his Formula 1 career ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-159475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475","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=159475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}