“FP2 was extra tough for us, weirdly, as a result of FP1 observe situations had been an absolute catastrophe,” Lawson conceded. “I don’t assume I’ve ever pushed such a tough session, to be sincere.
“[In] FP2, steadiness went away from us a little bit bit, however basically I feel the automotive’s in a reasonably good place – it’s simply effective tuning. Clearly tomorrow now we have a session within the day which isn’t going to assist us for Quali, so we’ll be trying into this session and taking what we are able to for Quali tomorrow.”
The Bahrain Worldwide Circuit is a well-recognized observe for many of the subject – provided that the venue hosted pre-season testing this 12 months – and Lawson admitted that that is more likely to make the margins even finer throughout the sphere.
“I made a reasonably large mistake in FP2 and it completely dropped me down, so for all of us now we have to utterly nail the lap as a result of in any other case it’s very, very pricey right here,” the 23-year-old stated.
“With all people being [at] testing, I feel all people has a reasonably good automotive, and it’s cool as a result of proper now Formulation 1 is a bit like that – the distinction between a extremely good lap and a foul lap can utterly change your place, so it places strain on us.”