Further enhancing the day, Lawson\u2019s Racing Bulls teammate Arvid Lindblad qualified ninth in his first home grand prix, while Red Bull stablemates Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar managed seventh and fifth respectively, as all four of the organisation\u2019s cars reached Q3.<\/p>\n
Lawson\u2019s performances to get into Q3 were wildly different. While his lap of 1m 29.300s was enough for second place in Q1, Lawson wasn\u2019t able to better that time in Q2, and could only post 1m 29.429s to sneak through by just 0.032s in 10th, before repeating that finish in Q3.<\/p>\n
However, as he proved in the sprint race, Lawson is more than capable of making up places when the 52-lap race begins.<\/p>\n
Fresh from winning the sprint race earlier in the day, Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli claimed pole position, and is joined on the front row by Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc. The pair\u2019s teammates Lewis Hamilton and George Russell start third and fourth respectively, as the two teams look to have pulled clear in the race for the drivers and constructors championships. <\/p>\n
The British Grand Prix begins at 2am on Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Lawson crossed the line eighth in the 17-lap sprint race, but was summoned to the stewards after allegedly moving under braking into turn 15 when defending from Hadjar.<\/p>\n
Liam Lawson in the British Grand Prix sprint race. Photo \/ Red Bull<\/p>\n
However, after a lengthy review, stewards sided with Lawson, who argued he had not commenced braking at the time he changed his line to defend Hadjar. Lawson was instead given a warning, but kept his point. <\/p>\n
That result gave Lawson his fifth lot of points in succession<\/a>, after also finishing inside the top 10 in Canada, Monaco, Barcelona and Austria.<\/p>\n The Kiwi had dropped as low as 11th after a poor start, but was able to fight his way back and complete the race comfortably inside the top 10. Finishing eighth marks just the second time Lawson has claimed points in a sprint race, after doing the same in China earlier this year. <\/p>\n That extra point takes Lawson\u2019s season tally to 31, and sees him close the distance to Alpine\u2019s Pierre Gasly in the driver\u2019s championship \u2013 with both vying for the tag of \u201cbest of the rest\u201d, as the highest-placed outside of Formula One\u2019s top four teams.<\/p>\n