Liam Lawson has opened up on his demotion from Red Bull following his early departure from the Milton Keynes-based squad.<\/p>\n
Following the exit of Sergio Perez at the end of the 2024 campaign, Lawson was promoted to the seat alongside Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
However, a disastrous opening two rounds of the campaign saw the New Zealander swiftly cast back to the sister Racing Bulls team.<\/p>\n
Speaking exclusively to RacingNews365, Lawson suggested he was underprepared heading into the new venture before running into unexpected obstacles.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at how other teams have approached bringing a young driver in and you look at the test days, the time in the seat, the amount of testing that, for example, Kimi [Antonelli], has done in the past before racing this year – we didn’t do any of that,\u201d\u00a0Lawson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was two weekends on two tracks I’d never raced at, one of them being a sprint weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey weren’t smooth weekends. We had issues in Bahrain [testing] with reliability, we had issues in Melbourne with reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n
After qualifying 18th and retiring following a crash in Australia, Lawson travelled to China hoping for an uptick in form.<\/p>\n
However, he qualified last and could not challenge for the points on race day during a weekend Red Bull opted to experiment with the car set-up in a bid to unlock pace.<\/p>\n
Lawson detailed he was happy to go along with the plan as he believed it was to help him for the races following the Chinese Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn China, we took a shot in the dark with the set-up to try and learn something,\u201d Lawson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, I was under the understanding it was to help me develop for the future, to have an understanding of the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I was happy to drive with this sort of set-up. That performance was then used to demote me from the team, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tLiam Lawson ‘naive’ over Red Bull performance patience<\/p>\n
Since returning to Racing Bulls, Lawson has enjoyed an uptick in form, including three point-scoring races in the last four grands prix.<\/p>\n
The Red Bull car has been known to be difficult to drive with a narrow operating window, as Lawson’s successor Yuki Tsunoda is also struggling to extract pace from the challenger.<\/p>\n
While the car posed issues for Lawson, the 23-year-old admitted he was far from pleased with his own personal performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were a few things over that time that made it not smooth,\u201d\u00a0Lawson said. \u201cIt wasn’t a clean couple of weekends.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd by my own standards, they weren’t good enough. I was obviously trying as hard as I could, and I was trying to get up to speed as quickly as I could.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs much as I look back now and go, \u2018What could I have done to do that better?\u2019, there are obviously things you look back in hindsight and go, \u2018I wish that I’d done this differently to try and help me\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I knew I was going to get two races, I would have probably done things slightly differently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I didn’t at the time. I was maybe a bit naive, but I thought I was going to get longer and have time to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has opened up on his demotion from Red Bull following his early departure from the Milton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63798,"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-63797","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\/63797","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=63797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}