{"id":188108,"date":"2025-10-03T20:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188108\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T20:55:12","slug":"liam-lawson-on-his-f1-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188108\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson on his F1 future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Lawson appears to be hitting his stride in Formula 1 at just the right time as he pushes to secure his future on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Kiwi endured a tough start to the season after being dropped by Red Bull just two races in. But after a slow adjustment at sister team Racing Bulls, Lawson has found consistency, highlighted by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/09\/22\/lawson-drives-to-career-best-fifth-as-verstappen-wins-in-baku\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">career-best fifth place<\/a> at the last Grand Prix in Azerbaijan. <\/p>\n<p>It was his third points finish in the last five events \u2014 a run that&#8217;s kept Lawson sitting in 13th place in the Driver&#8217;s Championship Standings. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media in Singapore, Lawson said small changes within the team had helped him turn things around after a tough start to the year. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think little details here and there, but we definitely found some things midway through the season to make me comfortable in the car,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Probably around Austria was the turning point in terms of results coming in.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The pace has been good since the start. It was just about putting it all together. That\u2019s what\u2019s clicked recently, but I know how quickly it can change in this sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-greyDarkFaded\">The morning&#8217;s headlines in 90 seconds, including a terror attack at a Manchester synagogue, Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori\u2019s reassurance to members, and how Elon Musk set a new world record. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n<p>Lawson&#8217;s early-season <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1news.co.nz\/2025\/03\/28\/liam-lawson-replaced-by-yuki-tsunoda-at-red-bull\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">demotion from Red Bull<\/a> was a tough blow, but it hasn\u2019t stopped him from producing strong performances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that maybe I&#8217;ll look back on more when the season is done,&#8221; Lawson said on the decision. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought that about the summer break, having some time to reflect on it, but in the end I didn&#8217;t think too much about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naturally, my brain goes there sometimes, and I think about it a little bit, but we have so much going on.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Red Bull is expected to decide in the coming weeks over who will drive for the team\u2019s two outfits in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Though a return to the senior Red Bull squad looks unlikely, retaining his place at Racing Bulls remains very much on the table if he continues to deliver consistent points.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in a programme that&#8217;s very high pressure,&#8221; Lawson said. &#8220;It&#8217;s always been like that, and we&#8217;ll continue to have that pressure through the year until a decision comes,&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message to us is to perform &#8211; and the better we perform, the better chance we have at staying in the sport.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>For now, Lawson says his focus is on keeping Racing Bulls ahead of Aston Martin and chasing down Williams for fifth in the Constructors&#8217; Championship. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As much as Baku was a great weekend, one good result isn\u2019t enough,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We need to keep this consistency going.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every time I get in the car, I\u2019m just focused on extracting everything I can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 Formula 1 season will continue this weekend at the Singapore Grand Prix in Marina Bay. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson appears to be hitting his stride in Formula 1 at just the right time as he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,2475,82],"class_list":["post-188108","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-motorsport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188108","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=188108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}