Liam Lawson has named driver comfort in the car as the “most challenging” aspect of his surprise return to Red Bull.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson was called up to race for the team in the Dutch Grand Prix after Isack Hadjar was ruled out due to a wrist injury, with the New Zealander returning to the team after being dropped following two races in 2025.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson performed well at Zandvoort, finishing just 0.115s and one place behind regular driver Max Verstappen in qualifying, and then going onto finish in seventh in the grand prix – the best \u00a0placed of the non-McLaren, Mercedes, or Ferrari drivers on a weekend Red Bull’s RB22 was firmly the fourth-fastest car.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his weekend, Lawson explained how, whilst the RB22 was “completely different aerodynamically” to his VCARB03 machine, the biggest “challenge” was getting used to the cockpit of his stand-in machine as opposed to his usual car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There are always things; I mean the car is completely different aerodynamically,” Lawson began to media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“And there are always things, personally as drivers, we try and make our cars as comfortable for us, and there are some things that when you switch a car for a weekend, you just can’t automatically change those things.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There is stuff in this car that isn’t the same as [the Racing Bulls] in terms of driver comfort that I’ve had to get my head around.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Without being too specific, that’s the stuff that has probably been the most challenging.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has named driver comfort in the car as the “most challenging” aspect of his surprise return…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":874078,"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-874077","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\/874077","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=874077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}