Liam Lawson has addressed a potential advantage Arvid Lindblad holds over him, but insisted it is \u201cnot an excuse\u201d for the year ahead.<\/p>\n
Lindblad joins the grid as the field’s only rookie this year, partnering Lawson at the Racing Bulls team.<\/p>\n
His arrival comes at the start of a new regulation cycle with major changes made to both the aerodynamic and power unit specifications.<\/p>\n
It has forced more experienced drivers to adapt to the new formula while Lindblad, who has limited testing mileage, is not having to do as much unlearning.<\/p>\n
When asked by RacingNews365 if this gives Linbdlad an advantage, Lawson replied: \u201cMaybe, yes – but at the end of day, we’re meant to be the best in the world and professionals.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe should be able to drive and adapt to anything. I’ve also been lucky to drive a lot of different cars.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI also try and drive a lot of different cars all the time for that very reason, to try and be adaptable.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wouldn’t be an excuse I would be wanting to find.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawson will be leaned on more at Racing Bulls this year to steer the development of the car, given his experience in comparison to Lindblad.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s strange, because I think I’ve always felt quite young coming into F1,\u201d Lawson said of his more senior status.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn’t change too much. I don’t feel too different at the end of the day. It’s my second full season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I’m definitely aware that there’s a lot more for me to learn, but you learn very quickly in the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do a lot of races in a year, so I learned a lot last year. I feel in a good place, and just want to keep progressing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has addressed a potential advantage Arvid Lindblad holds over him, but insisted it is \u201cnot an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478889,"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":{"0":"post-478888","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-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1-calendar","12":"tag-f1-live","13":"tag-f1-results","14":"tag-f1-standings","15":"tag-ferrari","16":"tag-formula-1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motor","20":"tag-motor-sports","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-motosport","23":"tag-motosports","24":"tag-racing","25":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478888","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=478888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}