{"id":894738,"date":"2026-10-26T01:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894738\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T01:38:17","slug":"liam-lawson-thought-he-broke-vsc-rules-due-to-us-gp-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894738\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson thought he broke VSC rules due to US GP issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Lawson<\/a> says an issue during the VSC period left him concerned over whether he was breaking the rules during the United States Grand Prix<\/a>.The New Zealand driver had a comfortable drive on his way to finishing ninth in Austin, with his only issue coming during the VSC period when an alarm kept ringing in his ears. The alarm is designed to warn drivers when they are travelling too quickly under the VSC delta. However, the alarm carried on for Lawson despite the Racing Bulls<\/a> driver slowing down.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the VSC came out, we went into a double yellow, and we get alarms that basically beep when you\u2019re going too quickly,\u201d Lawson explained. \u201cIt was just stuck on the whole time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The noise made him think he was exceeding the permitted delta, so he slowed down further. When he checked his dashboard, however, he was already around six seconds within the limit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was illegal, and I\u2019m slowing right down,\u201d he said. \u201cThen I looked down, and I\u2019m like six seconds positive. So I\u2019m good. But the things are beeping in my ear, so extremely distracting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawson suggested the problem may not have been limited to his car, describing it as a possible bug affecting other drivers too, though no driver has yet confirmed this.<\/p>\n

Lawson most comfortable he has been in F1After the race, Lawson was asked whether this is the most comfortable and happy he has been in Formula 1. The New Zealand driver is ninth in the standings<\/a> on 77 points, some 35 points ahead of Pierre Gasly.<\/p>\n

Lawson said: “Yeah. I mean, for sure. It’s it’s a it’s a good place. It’s been a good year. And, obviously, towards the end of the season now, only a few races there, but, obviously, for me, I’m trying to score as many points as I can this year. I’m gonna try and do that for the rest of the season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Lawson says an issue during the VSC period left him concerned over whether he was breaking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,158849,451,165063,3,268590,452,453,133794],"class_list":["post-894738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-f1-news","tag-headlines","tag-liam-lawson","tag-news","tag-racing-bulls","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-united-states-grand-prix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}