{"id":579946,"date":"2026-04-02T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579946\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T03:59:11","slug":"formula-1-liam-lawson-wont-have-supercars-stint-despite-australian-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/579946\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Liam Lawson won\u2019t have Supercars stint despite Australian reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Lawson would, in theory, receive a wildcard to race at the Taup\u014d Super 440 from April 10 to 12, and the Christchurch Super 440 from April 17 to 19, provided a seat was made available for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">The Herald understands Lawson will be in New Zealand briefly during the Formula One break to renew his passport, but will return to Europe before the Taup\u014d weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">It is unclear whether Lawson would be able to extend his stay in order to compete, if a spot were to be made available for him and the opportunity interested him, considering commitments to Racing Bulls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Another potential roadblock would come in the form of finding the Kiwi a race seat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">While Supercars would be within their rights to ask one of the 13 teams to vacate one of their cars, only one \u2013 Triple Eight Racing \u2013 is backed by Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Given both Broc Feeney and Will Brown are considered championship contenders for the 2026 title, it is highly unlikely either would be prepared to sit out a race weekend and therefore give up points to count towards their season total. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">Lawson has entered Formula One\u2019s break off the back of two positive race weekends. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">In China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/motorsport\/formula-1\/formula-1-result-liam-lawson-completes-double-points-race-weekend-takes-seventh-in-chinese-grand-prix\/ZXAFCLFSP5EUZHJH5LN3ATUTWU\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/motorsport\/formula-1\/formula-1-result-liam-lawson-completes-double-points-race-weekend-takes-seventh-in-chinese-grand-prix\/ZXAFCLFSP5EUZHJH5LN3ATUTWU\/\">he claimed seventh-placed finishes<\/a> in both the sprint and grand prix, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/motorsport\/formula-1\/formula-1-result-liam-lawson-claims-ninth-place-as-safety-car-changes-japanese-grand-prix\/VEFRAICOFNCZPJSLFEHTZTQA7E\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/motorsport\/formula-1\/formula-1-result-liam-lawson-claims-ninth-place-as-safety-car-changes-japanese-grand-prix\/VEFRAICOFNCZPJSLFEHTZTQA7E\/\">backed those drives up with ninth in the Japanese Grand Prix<\/a> at Suzuka last weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\">All up, Lawson sits 10th in the Formula One drivers\u2019 championship, with 10 points from three race weekends, six points of rookie Racing Bulls teammate Arvid Lindblad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sYHrSxRJWo\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/author\/alex-powell\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Alex Powell<\/a> is a sports journalist for the NZ Herald. He has been a sports journalist since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawson would, in theory, receive a wildcard to race at the Taup\u014d Super 440 from April 10 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[13808,64,63,81,38326,25453,183215,817,31960,813,816,1899,50926,78778,15448,6622,232,164772,85,284323,40367,10965,284325,5399,1050,206073,284324],"class_list":["post-579946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-13808","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-break","tag-despite","tag-enforced","tag-f1","tag-formula","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-have","tag-herald","tag-lawson","tag-liam","tag-part","tag-reports","tag-rounds","tag-sports","tag-stint","tag-supercars","tag-take","tag-understands","tag-while","tag-will","tag-wont","tag-zealandbased"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579946","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=579946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}