Liam Lawson has remembered the \u201cextremely uncomfortable\u201d position he found himself in last year when he was called up to replace Daniel Ricciardo.<\/p>\n
The 2024 Singapore Grand Prix marked Ricciardo’s final race in F1, with a string of disappointing performances resulting in Red Bull calling up Liam Lawson to replace him at its sister team, RB.<\/p>\n
It was widely speculated in the build-up to the event that it was likely to be Ricciardo’s final race with the team.<\/p>\n
Lawson had replaced Ricciardo once before in 2023 when the eight-time grand prix winner suffered a hand injury at Zandvoort.<\/p>\n
While there was discomfort for the rookie in handling the situation, he praised Ricciardo for his professionalism throughout the process.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor us, it was obviously extremely uncomfortable,\u201d Lawson told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing I took away from it was how much of a good person Daniel is and how he was to me through the whole journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom when I first came into this seat, when he had his injury, to going back to reserve, we had a very good relationship.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe still do. My only takeaway from that weekend last year was just how much respect I have for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last time out in Baku, Lawson recorded his career-best result with a drive to fifth place.<\/p>\n
The New Zealander revealed he received a congratulatory message from Ricciardo as he highlighted the pair still maintain a positive relationship.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sent me a nice message after Baku, and he\u2019s obviously off on his own journey at the moment,\u201d Lawson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just somebody who’s been very supportive. We’re from the same part of the world as well, so it’s something we probably both understand, it\u2019s quite difficult to get to this point.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re both very lucky. He’s been out in the open a little bit, probably needs to shave his beard in most people\u2019s opinions!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has remembered the \u201cextremely uncomfortable\u201d position he found himself in last year when he was called…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175794,"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-175793","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\/175793","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=175793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}