{"id":43403,"date":"2025-08-04T00:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43403\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:42:07","slug":"liam-lawson-makes-verstappen-admission-after-unexpected-f1-career-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43403\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson makes Verstappen admission after unexpected F1 career first"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Lawson delivered Racing Bulls an upset result by beating Max Verstappen and Red Bull in the Hungarian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

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It was only the second time since the 2022 Singapore Grand Prix that Verstappen finished outside the top six places on the road, crossing the line ninth at the Hungaroring with Lawson one place ahead.<\/p>\n

Liam Lawson admits surprise at beating Verstappen in Hungary<\/p>\n

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

It was the first time in Lawson\u2019s Formula 1 career that he has finished ahead of the reigning World Champion when both cars have finished a race, having been team-mates for two races at the start of the year.<\/p>\n

Finishing ahead of the \u2018senior\u2019 Red Bull in the sister team\u2019s car, motorsport advisor Helmut Marko admitted<\/a> the Milton Keynes operation was suffering a tyre-related issue all weekend at the Hungaroring.<\/p>\n

For Lawson, it marked a third points finish in the four races leading up to the summer break, highlighting a marked improvement in form compared to earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

While the New Zealander remains aware he needs to continue to deliver over the second half of the season, he was happy with his day\u2019s work in Hungary.<\/p>\n

Asked if he was surprised at finishing ahead of Verstappen, Lawson replied to media including PlanetF1.com: \u201cA little bit, because at the start, he was very fast.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI also saw [during] the first stint of the race, he was very quick at the start. He got me on the first lap, and then I think they struggled more on tyres, so I was kind of hoping it would be the same [later on].<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew if I kept him there [behind me] for a few laps, maybe he would start to drop, and I think that\u2019s more or less what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a very tough year. I think it\u2019s hard to string together a series of good results in F1, and recently it\u2019s been good for us but, obviously, we have another whole second half to go, and we need to learn from what\u2019s working right now and try and take that forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having come to the summer break off the back of his best run of results in 2025, Lawson has reduced the gap to Isack Hadjar in the Drivers\u2019 standings to two points.<\/p>\n

Even though he has returned to the points in recent races, Lawson credits only minor tweaks behind the scenes to make the most of\u00a0 his Racing Bulls machinery.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be honest, nothing huge has changed other than some small things in the car, and small things to me that have helped get me comfortable in the car,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s been really since Austria that I\u2019ve felt that comfortable in the car, but the speed has always been there since the start of the season, since we did the switch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had a lot of small things through that first part of the year and the consistency wasn\u2019t there, and now it is, but also it\u2019s very tough to keep that, so we need to try and focus on keeping that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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