Liam Lawson has conceded Racing Bulls endured a \u201ctough\u201d day at Monza as he called on the team to make improvements overnight.<\/p>\n
The New Zealander ended the second practice session in 17th place as he struggled for pace around the high-speed Italian track.<\/p>\n
Team-mate Isack Hadjar, fresh from his maiden podium last weekend at Zandvoort, narrowly missed out on finishing inside the top 10 at the end of FP2.<\/p>\n
Lawson was lacking half a second to his team-mate as he outlined his hope for improved performance on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tough on our side,\u201d Lawson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s very small margins here, so we\u2019re trying to extract everything out of the car.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe missed a little bit [on Friday]. Better we do it today, learn from it and try put ourselves in the best position for Saturday. But there\u2019s work to do.<\/p>\n
Expanding on where he is struggling for pace, Lawson explained: \u201cJust balance, trying to change things from FP1 to FP2.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou expect it to go in a certain way and it goes the other way. Trying to get on top of things and optimise the car for qualifying.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked if the car has the potential to fight for Q3, Lawson replied: \u201cI hope so. But at this stage, we definitely have some work to do to get to that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has conceded Racing Bulls endured a \u201ctough\u201d day at Monza as he called on the team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3007,1687,3010,3008,3011,3009,831,372,6537,832,3006,3005,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-117171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}