Liam Lawson has taken responsibility for the qualifying error which led to his disqualification from Mexico City GP qualifying after “a lot was going through my head.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson had qualified eighth on the road in Mexico, but was then shuffled back one place for his penalty due to the FP2 incident with Max Verstappen.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, just after completing his Q2 lap, he did not lift off the throttle in time, meaning his power unit exceeded the maximum power rampdown limit – leading to a straightforward technical disqualification.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
From the pit-lane after engine part changes, Lawson rallied back to ninth place on the road to originally score two points for Racing Bulls – as he continues to await a decision on whether he will keep his seat for 2027.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, a 10-second time penalty for Oscar Piastri demoted the Australian out of the points and the New Zealander up to eighth, before Franco Colapinto received a 10-second penalty for ignoring blue flags, meaning Lawson was classified seventh – from the pit-lane – and took his points tally for the year to 83 with a third six-point haul in the last four races.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think we should have got one more [place] at the end; there was a gap there, and I didn’t go for it, which I should have,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365 of his final lap and an attempted move on Colapinto, who finished 0.695s ahead before his penalty.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But ultimately, it was a good race to come from where we started in the pit lane, and the first part of the race just didn’t go our way; we didn’t box under the VSC, and then we boxed the lap before the safety car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So it was a tough race up until the restart, and then we had a good restart, a good lap one, but it is frustrating as on the first lap [after the restart], I had my dash go to VSC for a split second, so I backed off.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Then it went away, so I lost one or two spots, which is just frustrating when you’re in a race to have your dash do that, but it is a tough race, but a good result from where we started.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Then pushed on his qualifying error which ultimately led to his disqualification from the session, Lawson took responsibility after a “long weekend”, including the Max Verstappen incident in FP2.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It has been a long weekend, honestly,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There was a lot going through my head [on Saturday], and I was a split-second too late lifting off, and obviously it is very punishing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So I take responsibility on that, and it meant we started from the pit-lane, and it probably cost us maybe a place on track.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tLawson vs Gasly<\/p>\n
Turning to his late duel with Gasly, Lawson explained that his rival was not “generous” in ceding the position back with the incident briefly under investigation.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It surprised me, he just locked up and went off into Turn 1,” Lawson said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Then he rejoined, so I said he had to give the place back. We touched wheel and he wasn’t very generous giving the place back, but I got it back.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has taken responsibility for the qualifying error which led to his disqualification from Mexico City GP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949718,"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-949717","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\/949717","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=949717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}