Liam Lawson has cast doubt over the legality of Charles Leclerc’s late overtake on him for seventh place in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
On lap 69 of 71 in the wet conditions, Leclerc biffed Lawson out of the way at Turn 12 to climb the hill, with the right-front tyre making contact with Lawson’s left-rear, forcing the New Zealander wide.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
This then gave Leclerc better momentum up the hill, and although Lawson stayed ahead into Turn 1, the Ferrari driver got ahead for seventh place on the road into Turn 4 on the next lap after a thrilling wheel-to-wheel battle.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson finished eighth, but could capitalise if Leclerc is handed any penalty, as he was 1.816s behind over the line.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Leclerc has been called to the stewards regarding the incident for allegedly causing a collision, with Lawson saying the move reminded him of Leclerc’s move on Alex Albon in the 2017 GP2 race at Abu Dhabi – where Leclerc did a ‘bump and run’ on Albon into the hairpin before the long back straight, using this momentum to get ahead for the win.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Reflecting, Lawson branded the move as Leclerc’s “specialty.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I think it was his wing which hit my tyre, so I think we got really lucky,” Lawson said of Leclerc’s move to media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I feel like it was exactly like his GP2 move on Albon in Abu Dhabi years ago; he did the same kind of thing, so maybe it is his speciality.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I don’t know if it is legal or not, and we’ll go and review it, but it was a good battle overall.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tPotential Antonelli attack<\/p>\n
Fast-starting from third, Lawson initially felt he could have attacked leader Kimi Antonelli and taken the lead of a grand prix for the first time.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“It was a crazy race, honestly, I had a really good start, good grip into Turn 1 and made a place up and was thinking I might try and attack Kimi at some point in the lap,” he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But once the pace stabilised, they’re a lot quicker than us, and we started to fall back, we were damaging the tyre quite a lot more than them, and then the pace in the dry was okay.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“At the end, I tried to keep Charles before, we had some contact into Turn 12 , ended up losing the place.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has cast doubt over the legality of Charles Leclerc’s late overtake on him for seventh place…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":957623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-957622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957622","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=957622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/957623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}