Liam Lawson has shared how he began to discover a trend previously only affecting the top F1 teams on his Racing Bulls car.<\/p>\n
So far in 2026, the balance between protecting the battery and flat-out attacking in qualifying has been a topic of major discussion, with new rules in place for Miami to try and ensure the problem is rectified.\u00a0<\/p>\n
New Zealander Lawson felt that, owing to the Racing Bulls machine having less downforce than the front-running cars, such a problem was not a big issue but the fine balancing act over the course of a lap had began to expose itself as the team brought upgrades in Japan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I think the main thing here is that there is quite a big difference, and a balance between how much you extract performance-wise through the corners, on the throttle,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Especially when it comes to qualifying versus how much battery you are using, and that has been the big difficulty for us as drivers to get around this year.<\/p>\n
“Quite often, you end up going faster through the corners and then slower over the lap because you’ve used more battery and finding that balance is quite difficult.<\/p>\n
“For us in our car, it is definitely less of a topic than other teams, especially at the top, but the top teams are always going to be struggling with that more because they’ve got more downforce and are just a bit quicker.<\/p>\n
“But it is definitely something that as we get quicker, we are finding it more, and I personally think that in Japan, it was becoming more of a topic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has shared how he began to discover a trend previously only affecting the top F1 teams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632792,"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":["post-632791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632791","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=632791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}