Former IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe has backed Liam Lawson to keep his seat at Racing Bulls for the 2027 season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Red Bull sister squad has not yet confirmed its line-up for next year as it mulls over its options.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
While Arvid Lindblad is expected to retain his seat following an impressive rookie campaign, Liam Lawson’s position is less clear despite a strong season thus far.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Red Bull junior Nikola Tsolov is waiting in the wings for a promotion to F1 as he fights for the F2 championship in his rookie season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
But having scored over 55 per cent of Racing Bulls’ points this year, Hinchcliffe believes Lawson has done enough to keep his drive.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“He’s done plenty to justify being back at that team,” Hinchcliffe told the F1 Nation podcast.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I imagine that lineup’s unchanged next year. It just stings right now.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tLawson radio frustration a ‘natural’ reaction<\/p>\n
Lawson retired from last weekend’s race in Baku after a coming together with teammate Arvid Lindblad during a safety car restart.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The New Zealander conveyed a frustrated message over the team radio about being taken out by the other Racing Bulls driver, but Hinchcliffe insisted it was a raw reaction to the high-pressure situation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“That’s a natural reaction in the moment,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I mean, you’ll get over that stuff. It was nothing Lawson did wrong.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There’s nothing in that moment that the team can use against him in the case of whether or not he should be back there next year.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Racing driver and Hinchcliffe’s podcast co-host Alex Brundle insisted Lawson can be proud of his season, which included a brief step up to the Red Bull team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Hopping up to the main team, delivering the performances, hopping back down again, being on the pace, I completely agree,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“At least you can go back to the garage with your head held high and go, ‘Well, I was taken out of the race today. What is it you want to do me about it? I was ahead of that guy because that’s how I ended up backwards in the runoff area’.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe has backed Liam Lawson to keep his seat at Racing Bulls for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910238,"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-910237","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\/910237","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=910237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}