{"id":13922,"date":"2025-07-21T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13922\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:15:09","slug":"liam-lawson-says-his-confidence-never-took-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13922\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson says his confidence ‘never took a hit’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kiwi Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson says his confidence “hasn’t changed” despite a turbulent first half to his 2025 season. <\/p>\n

In an interview with Formula1.com, the 23-year-old opened up about the emotional highs and lows of his brief stint alongside Max Verstappen at Red Bull Racing. <\/p>\n

Lawson was promoted to the senior team after a string of impressive performances at AlphaTauri\/Racing Bulls – but was dropped after just two races.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kiwi returned to the Red Bull stable’s junior team and has since worked hard to settle into a rhythm and cement his place on the F1 grid. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a bit weird to have a second to reflect,\u201d Lawson said during the three-week break between the British and Belgian Grand Prix. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s been a very busy couple of months with six weeks and five race weekends. To have a bit of time\u2026 it\u2019s important to think about how everything\u2019s been.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the start of the year, [we had] the big shake-up with the team switch, and then not really having the time to get to grips with things, racing every weekend, and trying to be at the level that I need to be at. It\u2019s been a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawson made it clear that despite the disappointment of not being afforded more time at Red Bull, he never lost the belief in his racing abilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been very heavily speculated that my confidence took a hit and stuff like this, which is completely false. From the start of the year, I felt the same as I always have.<\/p>\n

\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson of New Zealand driving the (30) Visa Cash App Racing Bulls VCARB 02 on track during qualifying ahead of the F1 Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring on June 28, 2025 in Spielberg, Austria. (Source: Getty)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think in two races, on tracks I\u2019d never been to, it\u2019s not really enough for my confidence\u2026 maybe six months into a season, if I\u2019m still at that level, if the results are still like that, then I\u2019d be feeling something \u2013 maybe my confidence would be taking a hit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t really talked much about it, because I think for a big part of this year, I\u2019ve just ignored everything that happened, and I\u2019ve just focused on trying to drive the car \u2013 but I know there was a lot of stuff that went out that was speculation about how I was feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy confidence hasn\u2019t changed since the start of the year to now.\u201d Lawson said. <\/p>\n

Since returning to junior team Racing Bulls, Lawson has managed two-points scoring finishes, including an impressive career best 6th place in Austria.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, Lawson is still without a confirmed race seat for 2026 and currently sits 16th in the World Driver’s Championship standings. It has been widely speculated he will retain a place for next season, however. <\/p>\n

The Kiwi says his mindset is currently focused on each race as it comes, and not about where his F1 career might be in a year’s time. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou almost get lost in this world,” Lawson admitted. <\/p>\n

“You\u2019re forced to basically come out of a race weekend, have a day to think about what just happened, and then you\u2019re straight away thinking about the next race. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s healthy or not healthy, but you just think about F1, the performance and the result.<\/p>\n

“It does make a difference when you go into those little breaks, summer break and end of season, where you switch off. I find those moments quite weird.” <\/p>\n

Heading into the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend, Lawson will look to further build on his confidence and maintain his current strong form. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kiwi Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson says his confidence “hasn’t changed” despite a turbulent first half to his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82,12791],"class_list":["post-13922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-xf1autoz25x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}