Liam Lawson has been told that he must unlock his “genius” driving more frequently after “inexplicable” slumps.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After returning to Racing Bulls from Red Bull after the 2025 Chinese GP, Lawson eventually went on to score points in seven races, with a career-best of fifth in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n
There, he also qualified third in the tricky conditions for another career-best, but during the next weekend in Singapore, Lawson endured a poor outing after crashes in both Friday and Saturday practice, qualifying 12th and racing to 15th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is these types of performances team principal Alan Permane wants to see reduced as Lawson steps into the team leader role alongside rookie Arvid Lindblad.<\/p>\n
“What I would like from him is I would like to get him to the stage where we want to keep him here,” Permane told GPBlog.<\/p>\n
“I want him to deliver so that we think: ‘Wow, we’ve got to hang on to this guy, he’s really good.<\/p>\n
“I see some real genius in his driving sometimes. He qualified third in Baku in very difficult situations. In Vegas qualifying, he qualified sixth.<\/p>\n
“He had brilliant races in Spa, in Hungary, in Austria. There’s some real talent there.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes inexplicably, he will go out and Q1, and he doesn’t understand it. “The good stuff is good, it’s there, and he just [needs] to eliminate the poor, unexplained results that sometimes come.<\/p>\n
“I think then I think once you can do that, the rest will start snowballing and improve.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has been told that he must unlock his “genius” driving more frequently after “inexplicable” slumps.\u00a0 After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-460723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460723","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=460723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}