Liam Lawson believes F1’s new style of qualifying can be “extremely” mentally tough for drivers as they can no longer push flat-out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the new batteries not having enough energy to complete a full lap at usual qualifying speed, drivers are having to adapt their styles over a flying lap, much to their dismay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the Japanese GP, the level of energy able to be used was dropped to 8MJ from 9MJ, in a bid to limit lift and coast and super-clipping, but drivers were still widespread in their condemnation at Suzuka on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Reflecting to the shift, Racing Bulls’ Lawson branded the new style as a “strange way of driving.”<\/p>\n
“It is not like it used to be, it is quite different, quite frustrating in some cases when you’re trying to extract everything out of the corners,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
“You’re finding time through the corners, but you’re using more energy, and then you end up being slow trying to find the balance and drive under the limit. It is a strange way of driving.<\/p>\n
“It is unfortunately processing more rules to follow when qualifying, where previously you were flat-out trying to extract everything from the car.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes you will find the time, and feel like you are on the limit, and then you’ve actually spent more energy by doing that in the corners.<\/p>\n
“It is extremely [tough mentally] because in qualifying, you’re trying to go as fast as you can, so it is just about trusting the methods we have and following them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson believes F1’s new style of qualifying can be “extremely” mentally tough for drivers as they can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-362830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-racing","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362830","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=362830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}