Liam Lawson has explained his puzzlement at Racing Bulls’ swing in fortunes in Monaco after banking a top 10 result in qualifying.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Throughout the three practice sessions in Monte Carlo, Lawson placed in 19th, 16th, and 15th despite coming into the weekend optimistic the nature of the circuit would suit his package.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, during qualifying, Lawson placed 13th, ninth, and then 10th through the three segments to secure a top 10 on the grid ahead of what will be the 250th grand prix start by a New Zealander in the world championship.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Reflecting on his turnaround, Lawson explained how, despite the good result, there was still a “struggle” the team had to overcome.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Before the weekend, honestly, we were expecting [a good result], we thought we had a good car in low speed and that we should be good here,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But on Friday, we really struggled, so I think it is a good recovery. We made a lot of changes for this weekend, far more than normal, so it is good, but after Friday, we’ll obviously have to understand fully why we started so far away.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Q2 was a very good lap, and in Q3 we struggled a bit with warm-up, like most people were doing build laps and we were doing one, but the first sector was tough.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“So I actually went for another push lap after my lap, and I was finding time through Sector 1, but the rears went away and trying to put it all on one lap was very, very tough.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has explained his puzzlement at Racing Bulls’ swing in fortunes in Monaco after banking a top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464952,"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-464951","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\/464951","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=464951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}