Liam Lawson has admitted to being \u201cmentally drained\u201d after the opening three rounds of the new F1 season.<\/p>\n
The drivers have been getting up to speed with the new cars this year, which are creating a much different challenge compared to their predecessors.<\/p>\n
Energy harvesting and deployment now play a major role when extracting speed during qualifying and overtaking a rival during a race.<\/p>\n
It has generated various complaints from a number of drivers and the scale of the learning curve has not been lost on Lawson.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a little bit mentally drained,\u201d the New Zealander told F1. \u201cIt’s very intense this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have a lot more that you’re thinking about when you’re driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lawson has enjoyed a strong start to the campaign, scoring a duo of seventh-place finishes in China, which hosted a sprint race alongside the grand prix.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old followed up with another top 10 finish last Sunday in Japan, lifting himself into the top 10 in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n
However, Lawson has acknowledged that he got lucky with the timing of a safety car en route to the points.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was actually quite a tough race,\u201d he reflected.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe definitely got lucky with the safety car, so I don’t think we would have been in the points without it.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery thankful for that. There’ll be ones later for that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has admitted to being \u201cmentally drained\u201d after the opening three rounds of the new F1 season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576760,"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-576759","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\/576759","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=576759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}