Liam Lawson has opened the door to competing at the Race of Champions when the event lands in his home country in January.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Race of Champions, an annual end-of-season head-to-head that pits drivers from across motorsport against one another in identical machinery, is set to take place in Wellington, giving the country’s fans a rare chance to watch their own compete on home soil.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls driver Lawson, though, was careful not to get ahead of himself when asked about his involvement. “I’m not actually sure yet,” he said, speaking to media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“But it looks like something that’ll be really, really cool. I should be there over at that time as well, so yeah, it’d be something I’d love to do.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For a driver who has spent his career racing on the other side of the world, a January event in Wellington would mean lining up in front of a home crowd rather than a television audience, so the appeal is obvious.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Race of Champions is built on exactly that kind of occasion: a compact, knockout format that throws drivers from different disciplines into the same car and lets the result settle any argument.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For New Zealand, hosting it is a statement in itself as it is a chance to put the country at the centre of the motorsport calendar for a weekend, rather than at the end of a long-haul flight.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Whether Lawson is on the entry list remains to be seen, however, it is clearly an opportunity he is unlikely to refuse if offered.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has opened the door to competing at the Race of Champions when the event lands in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632238,"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-632237","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\/632237","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=632237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}