17/08/2025 20:00
Liam Lawson is refusing to get carried away by his positive form in
recent rounds as he acknowledged his fortunes can turn around
quickly. Lawson has scored points at three of the last four grands
prix, including a career-best sixth at the Austrian Grand Prix. His
positive spell comes after a difficult opening phase to the season.
The New Zealander commenced the year at Red Bull, but after two
challenging opening rounds, he found himself demoted back to the
sister Racing Bulls team. While Lawson has enjoyed an uptick in
fortunes since returning to the Faenza-based squad, he acknowledged
that things can rapidly go against him. "It's very easy to get
ahead of yourself in the sport, and I think that we've had a really
good couple of weekends and the speed has been very good," Lawson
exclusively told RacingNews365 . "But things change very, very
quickly. So I think the approach for me stays the same as it has
been for most of the season. "It's very, very close and
competitive. For me, it's just extracting everything out of me, but
I feel comfortable in the car." Lawson has long been a member of
the Red Bull family and carried its colours throughout his junior
career en route to F1. Although the results at the senior team
didn't go his way, he had little trouble integrating himself into
the squad when he stepped into the race seat at the start of the
year. "Being in this programme for five or six years now, even as a
junior, I started driving the simulator when I was in F2," he said.
"I started to get introduced to the team, and then you do your
first test days. I'd done a couple of TPCs with them over the
years. "I'd spent a lot of time with both teams. There was a period
where, as a reserve, I actually spent more time with Red Bull, and
then I spent more time with VCARB when I started driving with them.
"Honestly, I had spent plenty of time, especially with the
engineering side of the team, for quite a few years." Detailing
what he was able to learn during his two-round stint at Red Bull,
Lawson admitted it was little beyond seeing how the team approached
race weekends. "So I really learned quite a lot about the car and
about the way the team was," he said. "Just working with the team
and understanding their approach to race weekends, their approach
to setting up the car and things like that, for sure, there are
points that I take from that and there are points that I learn.
"That would be the only sort of stuff that I would take from that
time, because the rest, I didn't spend much time there."
