{"id":408202,"date":"2026-05-02T10:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T10:17:18","slug":"liam-lawson-bewildered-by-miami-chaos-i-honestly-cant-understand-how-thats-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/408202\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson bewildered by Miami chaos: ‘I honestly can’t understand how that’s possible’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Lawson was less than impressed by the confusion surrounding sprint qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix, after Alex Albon progressed to SQ2 at his expense, despite allegedly committing a track limits violation.<\/p>\n

The Williams driver was not initially investigated by the stewards, but has since been summoned.<\/p>\n

Had that happened sooner, Lawson may well have been granted a stay, having been P17 in SQ1 and subsequently eliminated from the session.<\/p>\n

Amid the uncertainty, the Racing Bulls driver returned from the weight bridge and got back into his VCARB 03 \u2014 but no reprieve came, as explained by the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When asked whether he got back into his car in case there was a chance of being re-admitted to the session, Lawson pointed his frustration toward the race director and stewards.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old replied: “No, Alex did track limits, but I think they [the FIA] realised too late, and because he’d already gone out on track…<\/p>\n

“I honestly can’t understand how that’s possible, but from our understanding, he’s literally done track limits and then gone through to SQ2.”<\/p>\n

The confluence of misfortune that led to the confusion was triggered by Lawson misplacing his car during the first segment of sprint qualifying.<\/p>\n

“It was a series of bad events, to be honest, through SQ1,” he said whilst detailing the snowball effect he experienced.<\/p>\n

“[I was a] little bit misplaced on the garage exit, and ended up a lot further back on track and didn’t have a very good outlap, and then I had a big flat spot in Turn 1 and destroyed the tyre.<\/p>\n

“So I tried to do the second lap on the flat-spotted tyre, and just had a lot of vibration. So yeah, it knocked us out, unfortunately.<\/p>\n

“I think the car has actually improved from this morning, so it’s a shame.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson was less than impressed by the confusion surrounding sprint qualifying at the Miami Grand Prix, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-408202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408202","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=408202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}