Liam Lawson has been told he is at an \u201cimportant stage\u201d of his F1 career amid uncertainty over his F1 future.<\/p>\n
Lawson is entering his second full-time season this year, having had substitute appearances during the 2023 and 2024 campaigns.<\/p>\n
His campaign last year started off at Red Bull before a challenging opening two rounds saw him demoted back to the sister team.<\/p>\n
Lawson managed to retain his spot at the Racing Bulls squad for another campaign and will be joined by rookie Arvid Lindblad this year.<\/p>\n
But Davidson has suggested Lawson must already start looking at the potential of life outside the Red Bull family.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Lawson, there have been other Red Bull drivers who have failed within that program to land consistency alongside Verstappen,\u201d Davidson exclusively told RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you only have to look at someone like Albon or Gasly who can make a very good career outside of that environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I’m sure if it does come to that, that’s what Liam will be looking to build this year and maybe next year, however long he stays at Racing Bulls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a driver, you’re always looking to see your next move. Sometimes it surprises everybody – like Lewis and Ferrari – or other times it makes a bit more sense, like when Gasly left the Red Bull umbrella.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLet’s see how Liam gets on. He starts this year as team leader, for what it’s worth and now is building on that experience from not being a rookie anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s a really important stage for Lawson’s time as a racing driver.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\tRacing Bulls ‘on the back foot’ compared to top teams<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls experienced a respectable pre-season period as he looks to build on its fifth place result from 2025.<\/p>\n
However, with a major regulation change introduced this year, Davidson acknowledged it will be a challenge for Racing Bulls to get closer to the top four squads.<\/p>\n
\u201cRacing Bulls don’t have the same foundations compared to other teams, like the top four, for example,\u201d Davidson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though they share a lot of the same DNA as the Red Bull team, they’re very much their own operation and they don’t have the same tools as Red Bull.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo therefore, any kind of shift of regulation, they’ll naturally be a bit more on the back foot than the big four.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHopefully, for their sake, this year won’t be the case.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has been told he is at an \u201cimportant stage\u201d of his F1 career amid uncertainty over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-511905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511905","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=511905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}