{"id":35127,"date":"2025-09-21T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35127\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T15:40:08","slug":"formula-1-kiwi-liam-lawson-finishes-fifth-in-azerbaijan-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/35127\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1: Kiwi Liam Lawson finishes fifth in Azerbaijan Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4K0PF3V_AFP__20250921__76A943B__v1__HighRes__AutoPrixF1AzeRace_jpg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"RB's New Zealander driver Liam Lawson competes during the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit in Baku on September 21, 2025. (Photo by Ozan KOSE \/ AFP)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nLiam Lawson competes during the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit.<br \/>\nPhoto: AFP \/ OZAN KOSE\n<\/p>\n<p>Kiwi Liam Lawson has notched up his best result in the 2025 Formula 1 season so far, finishing fifth in Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson started third on the Baku City Circuit, but fell several positions after pitting early, although he held off several contenders for his place in the final laps.<\/p>\n<p>Lawson, 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/sport\/573657\/brillant-lawson-third-on-f1-grid-for-azerbaijan-grand-prix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clocked the third-fastest time of Q3<\/a>, covering the 6km circuit in 1m 41.707s.<\/p>\n<p>Reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen won the race, leading from start to finish. George Russell took second place, with Carlos Sainz rounding out the top three.<\/p>\n<p>See how the race unfolded with RNZ&#8217;s live blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson competes during the Formula One Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the Baku City Circuit. Photo: AFP \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-35127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-audio","9":"tag-current-affairs","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-podcasts","13":"tag-public-radio","14":"tag-radio-new-zealand","15":"tag-rnz","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}