Liam Lawson has dealt the FIA a blow over how effective its rule change was for qualifying at the Japanese Grand Prix, declaring it “didn’t feel like” it made any difference.<\/p>\n
For F1’s most recent round at Suzuka, the FIA intervened ahead of the event and reduced the level of energy that could be used from 9MJ to 8MJ.<\/p>\n
The hope was that this would limit lift-and-coast and super-clipping, allowing qualifying laps to be more flat-out, as they have traditionally been.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, super-clipping was still very present, particularly on the entry to the iconic 130R, leaving many drivers frustrated.<\/p>\n
Asked if the FIA rule changes affected qualifying, Lawson told select media, including RacingNews365: “It’s hard to know, because every track is very, very different at the moment.<\/p>\n
“So I haven’t driven with the previous settings you\u2019re referring to, so it’s very hard for me to tell. But it didn’t feel like it.”<\/p>\n
Across the Japanese Grand Prix, many comparisons were made by fans to Super Formula, an elite Japanese single-seater series.<\/p>\n
While its machinery has less horsepower than F1, it is renowned for its exceptional cornering speeds\u2014something Lawson described as “very, very high”.<\/p>\n
Discussing Super Formula at Suzuka, Lawson said: “Yeah, the car here is something special. It’s a very fun car to drive\u2014low, comparatively, in horsepower to Formula 1, but the corner speeds are very, very high.<\/p>\n
“My last experience of Super Formula was at this track, and it\u2019s very, very enjoyable. It’s still a great track.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has dealt the FIA a blow over how effective its rule change was for qualifying at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587901,"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-587900","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\/587900","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=587900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}