He will have an upgraded car but New Zealand driver Liam Lawson admits he can’t just expect a good result to land in his lap in Hungary this weekend.
Last weekend’s 12th place finish in Belgium ended Lawson’s run of five points scoring races.
His Racing Bull’s team-mate Arvid Lindblad was given the one available upgrade for the race at Spa and the Briton managed to finish ninth.
However, in the existing set-up Lawson struggled for speed at times and did well to hang onto his final placing.
The 24 year old will get the same chassis upgrade this week but isn’t relying on it to score points.
“It’s obviously good to have the full package this weekend, but it doesn’t solve all the answers.” Lawson told media on the eve of the Hungary Grand Prix.
“It definitely wasn’t the full gap that we were missing last week, so I can’t sit here and be like it’s just gonna be perfect now.
“We’ve obviously looked over a lot of things and I’ll try and do a better job this weekend as well. Hopefully it’s strong enough.”
Lawson sits tenth in the drivers’ standings with 39 points, just three points behind Pierre Gasly of Alpine.
While his golden run did end at Spa, he remains confident of what they can do.
“Obviously we’d love to turn that around and have another good weekend as we had leading up to Spa, I think the team’s in a great place.”
Racing Bulls is now tied for fifth with Alpine in the constructors’ standings in the battle of the mid-field teams.
Earlier this week Racing Bulls principal Alan Permane praised Lawson’s achievements but admitted the Kiwi had returned a different person following his demotion from Red Bull.
Lawson finished eighth at [https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/568873/norris-wins-in-hungary-lawson-in-the-points-again the Hungaroring last year.
The Hungary GP is the last before Formula 1 takes a month long summer break.