{"id":847166,"date":"2026-08-07T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847166\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:26:09","slug":"liam-lawson-highlights-good-place-after-dream-first-half-to-f1-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/847166\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson highlights &#8216;good place&#8217; after dream first half to F1 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Lawson has stated he is in a \u201cgood place\u201d after enjoying a successful first half to the 2026 F1 season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Racing Bulls has relished in a competitive period at the start of the new regulation cycle, fielding a car that has frequently featured inside the top 10.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lawson has scored points at eight out of the 11 grand prix events staged so far, placing him ninth in the drivers&#8217; championship.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The period has marked a much more encouraging time compared to 12 months ago, when he was still recovering from an early-season demotion from Red Bull.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Assessing his season so far, Lawson told F1: \u201cWhen you&#8217;re in a good rhythm and you find things that are working for you, it&#8217;s obviously a good feeling.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd getting in a routine of doing that has been something that, especially during the European part, we&#8217;ve had less travel and spent a bit more time at home.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s been a good opportunity to just focus a little bit more on myself as a driver and as an athlete, so I&#8217;ve just tried to do that.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso on the development side of the team, making sure that we&#8217;re prepared each weekend \u2013 not just having more meetings, but having effective meetings and discussions about what we&#8217;re trying to achieve. I think that&#8217;s been working very well.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Lawson made his F1 debut in 2023, with his appearances across the first two years of his career coming from call-ups in place of Daniel Ricciardo.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Having now settled into the rhythm of understanding the demands of a full-time seat, Lawson feels he is driving as strongly as he ever has.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I mean naturally the more experience you have, it&#8217;s going to be like that.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut also obviously the results have been better this year and so that&#8217;s going to make you feel in a good place.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has stated he is in a \u201cgood place\u201d after enjoying a successful first half to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819826,"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-847166","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\/847166","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=847166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}