Liam Lawson has highlighted the importance of having a full pre-season with Racing Bulls as a “big difference” maker.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The 2026 pre-season was the first time in his career that Lawson had spent the period with Racing Bulls, doing so ahead of the major rules overhaul.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The New Zealander had spent the 2025 pre-season with Red Bull, but was demoted after two grands prix back to Racing Bulls – meaning he missed out on this crucial time understanding last year’s machine.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Thus far in 2026, Lawson has scored points in seven of the nine grands prix, and also two of the four Sprints, with Racing Bulls emerging as the fifth-fastest team over the last few grands prix.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Explaining the importance of having a full pre-season, Lawson detailed how “being exactly aware” of the development direction was key.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I mean, everything helps,” Lawson began when asked by RacingNews365 for the impact of a full pre-season on his performance.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I mean, naturally, the more experience you have in anything, the more it helps.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But I think this year, coming in, especially with these new cars, it makes a big difference doing all the pre-season development.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Being exactly aware of where we’re focused on the car, what we are developing, I think it all makes a big difference.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has highlighted the importance of having a full pre-season with Racing Bulls as a “big difference”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784327,"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-792412","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\/792412","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=792412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}