Liam Lawson has revealed how he was “just trying to survive” the opening laps of the Miami GP and trying to “chase” the car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
From 11th on the grid, Lawson had an eventful afternoon in Miami with a first-lap squirmish with Max Verstappen in which the Red Bull forced the Racing Bulls off the track, but with Lawson being instructed to hand the position back.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
On Lap 6, just as Pierre Gasly was overtaking into Turn 17, the Racing Bulls machine suffered a gearbox failure, pitching Lawson into the side of Gasly, who flipped over and came to rest askew against the TecPro barrier.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Recalling his afternoon, Lawson felt the weekend could be summed up as the team simply not being “quick enough” throughout as it came away point-less.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I was just trying to survive the first lap, and we weren’t quick enough,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We weren’t quick enough in general in the first couple of laps, and I already knew that we had quite a bad balance and we were trying to chase it.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But it wasn’t enough, and we just weren’t quick enough this weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So it is definitely to be reviewed, and we have a lot of stuff coming through the year, which is positive, but everybody else has as well, so we need to make bigger steps.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has revealed how he was “just trying to survive” the opening laps of the Miami GP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656508,"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-656507","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\/656507","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=656507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}