Liam Lawson has explained how he felt “stressed” during the clinical overtaking move by Max Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton in Hungary.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Hamilton successfully triggered the undercut on Verstappen in the opening round of pit-stops, to run a net third, but after exiting the pits, had to pass Lawson’s Racing Bulls machine.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Being tucked up behind Lawson allowed Verstappen to latch onto the back of Hamilton, and after both passed Lawson along the pit-straight, Verstappen divebombed Hamilton into Turn 1, scything past the Ferrari to earn back the net third place.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Lawson had a prime view of the action as he then engaged in his own battles with the Audis and team-mate Arvid Lindblad, eventually going on to score eighth place to end the first half of the season with 43 points and the highest-placed driver not from Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, or Red Bull.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Reflecting, he described how he wanted to “not get in the way.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I was just trying not to get in the way and not be too much involved,” Lawson told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I was getting lapped, so I didn’t have to let them go, but I didn’t expect [Verstappen] to go by.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Obviously I saw the late lunge, but it ended up costing me time behind them, which at the time was a bit stressful, but it was a good move.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We did not plan on two-stopping, so that was a surprise, and I could feel that there was something going on behind because of the communication with [race engineer] Alex [Iliopoulos]\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“He was mentioning the Audis, but not saying too much, and then out of nowhere, I was pushed to box, and it was a long stint on the softs at the end, but it was a great call.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has explained how he felt “stressed” during the clinical overtaking move by Max Verstappen on Lewis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548100,"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-548099","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\/548099","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=548099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}