Liam Lawson labelled the small margins around Spa-Francorchamps as \u201ccrazy\u201d after suffering an early exit from sprint qualifying.<\/p>\n
Lawson ended the second segment of the outing in 11th place, 0.041s down on Oscar Piastri ahead of him in 10th.<\/p>\n
The New Zealander is confident he could have progressed into the final stage if not for a minor mistake in the final corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a little bit frustrated,\u201d Lawson said. \u201cIt\u2019s just small margins, which is crazy around here because it\u2019s such a long lap.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car has been fast, I was on a lap that was probably plenty good enough but I had a small issue in the last chicane.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just tiny things that make a difference, so it\u2019s knocked us out.\u201d<\/p>\n
While he was left disappointed with his result, Lawson is still in contention for points in the shorter sprint race, which pays out to the top eight finishers.<\/p>\n
After the race, the cars are allowed to undergo changes ahead of qualifying for the grand prix, which Lawson sees as an opportunity to improve on his Friday result.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt depends on our race pace obviously but we\u2019ll take the learnings from today and apply to qualifying tomorrow,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike every other weekend, it\u2019s just extracting every little bit out of the car. The wind changes makes quite a big difference, as it did at Silverstone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sensitive stuff, trying to maximise stuff, for us as well as drivers, trying to put everything together. Normally when you do that, it\u2019s enough to go through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson labelled the small margins around Spa-Francorchamps as \u201ccrazy\u201d after suffering an early exit from sprint qualifying.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22085,"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-22084","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\/22084","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=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}