Liam Lawson has addressed his relationship with Red Bull following his early season demotion back to Racing Bulls, insisting he remains on “quite strong” terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following 11 appearances for the Red Bull sister squad across 2023 and 2024, Lawson was handed a first full-time F1 seat alongside Max Verstappen for the current campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was chosen as Sergio Perez’s replacement over Yuki Tsunoda, but immediately struggled in the Milton Keynes-based outfit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lawson endured two challenging races in Australia and China, before being handed a shock demotion back to Racing Bulls \u2013 Tsunoda replaced him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It remains a decision Red Bull receives heavy criticism for, given the minimal time Lawson had to settle into what is historically viewed as a difficult seat.<\/p>\n
Back in the sister team, Lawson found himself immediately being beaten by rookie Isack Hadjar, but is starting to rediscover some excellent form.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lawson has scored points in four of the last seven grands prix, with Q3 having been reached on each of those occasions.<\/p>\n
Discussing in an exclusive RacingNews365 interview if time was needed to readjust back in Racing Bulls, Lawson explained: “I think we were approaching the season… I was approaching the season with Red Bull, and I was obviously preparing with Red Bull.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“My whole understanding and learning of where the car was going was in a Red Bull car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And I, obviously, didn’t have much time then switching back. So, yeah, when you prepare with a team, to then switch, it’s quite different.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“But at the same time, I have driven this car in the past, a similar car, let’s say. And you know, knowing the team, the transition was pretty smooth.”<\/p>\n
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Despite Hadjar’s excellent start to his maiden F1 season, Lawson has gotten himself just two points adrift of the French-Algerian, following his recent form.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pace difference between the two Racing Bulls drivers has narrowed considerably, increasing Red Bull’s options for next year should it wish to replace the struggling Tsunoda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lawson has found the pace which saw him handed the Red Bull seat for 2025 after a period of readjustment in the Faenza-based outfit.<\/p>\n
He has started to thrive back in the Racing Bulls environment, but is certain he continues to have an excellent relationship with both teams.<\/p>\n
Asked if the sister team feels like a ‘safe space’, Lawson replied: “Honestly, across the teams, it’s hard because I had spent so much time with both teams anyway.<\/p>\n
“So my sort of relationships with the whole engineering side of both teams is quite strong now, just because of six or seven years of being in the [Red Bull] programme and coming up through the ranks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So I would say, on that side, it’s honestly, it’s not too different. It’s a team that I’m more used to working with, let’s say in Formula 1. My time in the car has been with this team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So for sure, that side of it is a bit, let’s say, just more experience, or I have more understanding, but in terms of how I felt within both teams, honestly, I can’t say that it was too different in terms of how I was feeling.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson has addressed his relationship with Red Bull following his early season demotion back to Racing Bulls,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67414,"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-67413","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\/67413","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=67413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}