Liam Lawson said that Max Verstappen was \u201cso good to me\u201d throughout his short, challenging time as a Red Bull Racing driver.<\/p>\n
Since then, Lawson<\/a> revealed that Verstappen has even extended the offer to fly home with him to Monaco if he wishes. Lawson also opened up on his struggles to get comfortable, consistently, with the Red Bull car.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen support during Liam Lawson Red Bull stint<\/p>\n Want more PlanetF1.com coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for news you can trust.<\/p>\n Lawson\u2019s time alongside Verstappen at Red Bull was very brief. He lasted just two grands prix at the start of 2025, and Verstappen publicly made his disapproval clear over Lawson\u2019s swift demotion back to Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n And as for behind the scenes, Lawson could not speak any more highly of how Verstappen acted towards him.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s also so, so nice as a person. He\u2019s such a nice guy,\u201d said Lawson of Verstappen on the Gypsy Tales podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cThrough everything that happened last year with Red Bull, he was so good to me, man.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore I came into the team, when I first came on the team, he was super nice, and any questions, he was just really helpful, was happy to help.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd then afterwards as well, he was really, really good to me.<\/p>\n \u201cQuite often he flies home, and I just moved to Monaco last year, and he\u2019s just like, \u2018Just come with me if you ever need a ride.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cSo yeah, he\u2019s a real nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n More on Liam Lawson from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n Lawson reveals Daniel Ricciardo support after \u2018worst guy\u2019 Singapore GP fear<\/a><\/p>\n Racing Bulls warn Liam Lawson to fix \u2018inexplicable\u2019 lows for F1 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Lawson stepped up to Red Bull after two stints with the junior F1 team AlphaTauri\/Racing Bulls. He failed to escape the first stage of qualifying as a Red Bull driver, while P12 in China was his best result, and final with Red Bull.<\/p>\n Lawson was asked what the hardest part was about that Red Bull RB21 car. Lawson joined Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Sergio Perez, and his successor Yuki Tsunoda, in failing to keep head above water as teammate to the four-time World Champion Verstappen.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me, it\u2019s always going to be I didn\u2019t have enough time to get my head around it.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it was very different from the VCARB at the time. But, I think everybody just maybe thinks that it\u2019s got so much front and that it\u2019s undriveable because it\u2019s got so much front, and it\u2019s not actually not like that.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially from where we started last year, even if you look at Max, for example, I think they actually found a lot through the year. Towards the end of the year he was a lot quicker. Because when I was there, the McLarens were gone. We weren\u2019t fighting the McLarens, really, anyway.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I wasn\u2019t fighting the McLaren, I was fighting myself at the back!<\/p>\n \u201cBut, it\u2019s not just like the car has too much front, because actually, I have always been a type of person that likes a lot of front in the car. It\u2019s not that.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the balance through the corner wasn\u2019t very good where we started last year. But it\u2019s not just too much front. It\u2019s very sensitive, for sure, when you initially turn in, but it\u2019s just the feeling that you\u2019re trying to find.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the day, when you drive these cars, especially in F1, the commitment level is so high. You\u2019re turning into a corner at 300 plus flat out, and not even lifting.<\/p>\n \u201cChina Turn 1, for example. It\u2019s just such a high speed that if you\u2019re not 100 percent confident when you\u2019re doing it, it\u2019s not like half a tenth, it\u2019s half a second. You lose so much lap time if you\u2019re not. So you need to be sort of that level of comfort.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawson admitted that he \u201chad it a couple of times through those two weekends,\u201d but that did not include during the all-important Q1.<\/p>\n After the two race weekends in Australia and China, Lawson was sent back to Racing Bulls, as Tsunoda came the other way, replacing him at Red Bull from the Japanese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n Tsunoda also struggled to impress, leading to him being demoted to Red Bull test and reserve driver from 2026. Lawson earned a new deal with Racing Bulls for 2026.<\/p>\n Want to be the first to know exclusive information from the F1 paddock? Join our broadcast channel on WhatsApp<\/a> to get the scoop on the latest developments from our team of accredited journalists.<\/p>\n You can also subscribe to the PlanetF1 YouTube channel<\/a> for exclusive features, hear from our paddock journalists with stories from the heart of Formula 1 and much more!<\/p>\n