{"id":924695,"date":"2026-10-11T22:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924695\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T22:10:09","slug":"liam-lawson-delivers-singapore-gp-statement-ahead-of-f1-2027-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/924695\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson delivers Singapore GP statement ahead of F1 2027 decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Lawson<\/a> said he and Racing Bulls<\/a> were left \u201cvery, very happy\u201d after a strong Singapore Grand Prix race weekend ended on a major high.<\/p>\n

The New Zealander impressed around Marina Bay in a strong drive to P7. It was a statement performance as Racing Bulls prepares to decide its F1 2027 pairing in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson shines as Racing Bulls decision looms<\/p>\n

Lawson<\/a>, Arvid Lindblad and Nikola Tsolov are competing for two F1 2027 Racing Bulls seats. Lawson could not be doing much more to prove his worth to the Faenza squad and Red Bull programme.<\/p>\n

After finishing fifth in the Sprint, the 24-year-old impressed again by securing seventh in the Grand Prix, from eighth on the grid.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the target really today was to get it off the line, and we were able to do that,\u201d Lawson told PlanetF1.com and other accredited media after the race.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe started on the soft. I had so much grip that I was attacking a McLaren. I didn\u2019t really want to be. I just wanted them to pull away.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, first part of the race, first lap, everybody was bunching up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car has been very strong this weekend, and in all conditions, so we\u2019re very, very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the sister Racing Bulls, Lindblad had complained of issues with his power unit, as he was \u201cgetting driven past in the straights. The engine braking was pretty bad, so it wasn\u2019t easy to drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawson was asked if he encountered similar odd behaviour from the Red Bull-Ford PU.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing out of the ordinary,\u201d he confirmed. \u201cI think in general the power units are weird.<\/p>\n

\u201cDifficult to have a consistent run through the race when you have the same every time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first part of the race for me was very, very tough, honestly. Especially the first few laps, we had a lot of\u2026 I think mainly because also we didn\u2019t do any long running on Friday, so nobody knew what the power was going to be like. So that made it very, very tough.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we got on top of that, everything was okay.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lawson\u2019s double-points finish in Singapore came in contrast to a challenging race weekend for Lindblad, who walked away from Marina Bay empty-handed.<\/p>\n

With 75 points on the board, the Kiwi has established himself as the comfortable leader of the midfield pack. He sits P9 in the Drivers\u2019 Championship standings<\/a>, 34 points ahead of Alpine\u2019s Pierre Gasly.<\/p>\n

Racing Bulls team principal Alan Permane stated at the Singapore GP that its F1 2027 driver line-up would be decided in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

After a free weekend coming up, the season will resume with the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of The Americas.<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher<\/p>\n

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Read next: Max Verstappen finally conquers Singapore with dominant Grand Prix victory<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson said he and Racing Bulls were left \u201cvery, very happy\u201d after a strong Singapore Grand Prix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":924696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-924695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924695","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=924695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}