Liam Lawson has revealed the support he received from Max Verstappen following his surprise demotion from Red Bull in 2025.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The New Zealander stepped up to the senior team from Racing Bulls to replace Sergio Perez, but lost the seat after just two race weekends in Australia and China.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
At the time, Verstappen himself signalled his discontent with that decision, as Lawson detailed his relationship with the four-time champion – and how he supported Lawson in the aftermath of his demotion.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“In general, Max was just always very real, like he’s somebody that at such a high-level, accomplished position that he’s in, it’d be very easy for him to not be like that,” Lawson told the High Performance podcast.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“And it’s not just with me; he seems to be like that with everybody. And I think Max is somebody who just wants to race cars and loves to talk about cars, loves to talk about racing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“When I came in, I noticed he would always make an effort to, like, just acknowledge me and say hi and stuff like this, and when I first was a reserve, he knew I was racing F2 and said he’d come and ask me about it, ‘How’s F2 going? How’s the car? What do you know? How’s everything feeling?’\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I remember at the time it was just really cool, and he’s always been very real like that. So, and then when I went to Red Bull through all of it, he was very supportive. I won’t go too much into detail about it, but he was very supportive, very, very supportive.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I spoke to a lot of people during that time, but I spoke to him about it, basically, and he was, he was very supportive.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has revealed the support he received from Max Verstappen following his surprise demotion from Red Bull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":753467,"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-753466","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\/753466","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=753466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}