Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane has stated Liam Lawson must deliver \u201cperfect\u201d race weekends and play a role in helping to provide the “perfect” car for the remainder of the season if he is to remain in F1 next season.<\/p>\n
Lawson’s F1 future is currently up in the air, with only Max Verstappen confirmed to be under contract next season within the Red Bull family.<\/p>\n
Lawson has enjoyed an uptick in form since returning to Racing Bulls earlier this year after enduring a nightmare opening two rounds alongside Verstappen at Red Bull.<\/p>\n
With Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad waiting in the wings for an F1 debut, it has sparked speculation that either Lawson or Yuki Tsunoda will make way in 2026.<\/p>\n
As he seeks to retain his seat for next year, Lawson has been told he must deliver the ideal race weekends.<\/p>\n
Asked what Lawson needs to do to retain his seat, speaking to the media, including RacingNews365, Permane said: \u201cThe same as Isack, the same as all the other 19 drivers are trying to do – execute perfect race weekends.”<\/p>\n
With seven rounds remaining in the season, teams are placing development focus on next year’s car, which is being designed under a fresh set of technical regulations.<\/p>\n
As a result, Permane is not expecting to see major changes to the pecking order, making results difficult to come by.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one\u2019s going to be bringing any more upgrades, or I doubt very much anyone’s bringing any more upgrades,\u201d Permane said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ve got what we\u2019ve got at the track. We\u2019ve got the car that we\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s for him [Lawson] and his engineers, and the support we have back from the UK and Faenza in Italy, to deliver as close to a perfect car as we can for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he needs to deliver perfect race weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane has stated Liam Lawson must deliver \u201cperfect\u201d race weekends and play a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-178696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178696","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=178696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}