03/07/2025 23:00
Liam Lawson has instructed his Racing Bulls team that it must
continue to deliver strong weekends after his breakthrough Austrian
GP. Lawson qualified and finished sixth at the Red Bull Ring - and
was the only Red Bull-affiliated driver to score points at the
circuit it owns. The result was the best of Lawson's F1 career,
eclipsing the eighth place he took earlier this year in Monaco and
marked a breakthrough for the New Zealand racer following his tough
spell at Red Bull and being overshadowed by Isack Hadjar since they
became team-mates. Despite the strong result, Lawson is adamant
that the team simply must continue to deliver weekends like Austria
after "average" races since his return to the team. "In Formula 1,
you only get 24 hours to take a good weekend in, let's say, and
then we are straight back to racing," Lawson told media, including
RacingNews365. "It was great, but at the end of the day, we need
more of them, and that is the focus going into this weekend. "It
was a really good result, but it is almost not what we expected,
but it is what we are pushing for. "To celebrate one good weekend
after seven or eight average weekends is not [good], we need to
have more good weekends. "We are making sure we are ready [for
Silverstone] and working with the engineers, analysing last week
and trying to take in what we can. "Obviously, it is a different
track, but taking things that we learned, and there is some stuff
on the car that I felt very comfortable with last week that we will
take for this week."