Liam Lawson has cited Qualifying as the principle space wherein he hopes to enhance coming into into the second half of the season, with the Racing Bulls driver feeling that his finest weekends have occurred when he has had a robust efficiency on Saturday.
The 2025 marketing campaign began off in eventful type for Lawson, having initially partnered Max Verstappen at Crimson Bull earlier than a swap with Yuki Tsunoda noticed him return to the workforce’s sister outfit after simply two races.
Since then the New Zealander has been getting again into the rhythm on the wheel of the VCARB 02, with a very robust run of late seeing him convert a top-10 grid slot into factors at three of the final 4 Grands Prix.
As such, when requested forward of F1’s summer season break concerning the areas that he might be specializing in as ones to enhance through the the rest of the marketing campaign, Lawson responded: “If I used to be to simply decide an space, total, it is Qualifying.
“With how essential it’s in the intervening time as a result of everyone’s very shut, even on tracks which can be possibly simpler to overhaul, it is nonetheless tough as a result of you do not have a 3, 4, five-tenth tempo benefit. You’ve like a one or two-tenth tempo benefit, and that is very onerous to overhaul.
“Qualifying is essential, it units up your weekend. The place our weekends have fallen away, a minimum of on my facet, has been usually in a mean Qualifying. The place our weekends have been robust, it is after we qualify properly.
“That is the principle goal: simply extracting every little thing, ensuring we’ve got the automobile in the very best place going into Qualifying, after which for me getting every little thing out of it and doing a greater job.”
Reflecting again on the yr up to now, Lawson admitted that issues have now grow to be extra secure following a frenetic begin, and voiced his hope that Racing Bulls can proceed to attain good factors through the second half of the season.
“It has been busy,” the 23-year-old mentioned. “It has been a whirlwind, particularly at first of the yr. Very surprising, and what was in all probability a rocky begin has now stabilised and we’re in a greater place.
“The pace’s been there many of the yr, and it is good that we’re lastly in a position to get a few good outcomes. As an entire, we must be doing that extra. To have two or three of these races over the primary half of the season isn’t sufficient.
“Going ahead into the second half of the yr, we’re attempting to copy this extra. Proper now, with how shut it’s, it is the little issues that make an enormous distinction. Attempting to extract every little thing every weekend.”
