Liam Lawson has admitted he was surprised to be asked to hand his position back to Max Verstappen during the Miami Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Verstappen started the race from the front row but was shuffled down the order after a spin at the second corner.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As he attempted to recover lost ground, Verstappen went wheel-to-wheel with Lawson at Turn 11, with both drivers running off the track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson remained ahead of his former Red Bull team-mate but soon moved aside after being instructed to do so by his team.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The New Zealander has admitted his surprise at the call, believing he was not at risk of receiving a penalty for gaining an advantage.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think I had to give the place back, but apparently I did,\u201d Lawson told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s close racing, but I wasn’t really going to be fighting today anyway.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Soon after, Lawson’s race came to an end after he suffered a gearbox failure, which pitched him into Pierre Gasly.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, the 24-year-old acknowledged he was likely in for a difficult grand prix before his terminal problem arose.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that point I didn’t know, but I think a couple of laps after that I realised we had not a very good balance,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it would have been hard to stay in the top 10, but I think we could have done that today, and scored at least a couple of points.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has admitted he was surprised to be asked to hand his position back to Max Verstappen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414891,"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":["post-414890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414890","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=414890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}