Liam Lawson has cited Qualifying as the primary space by which he hopes to enhance coming into into the second half of the season, with the Racing Bulls driver feeling that his greatest weekends have occurred when he has had a powerful efficiency on Saturday.
The 2025 marketing campaign began off in eventful fashion for Lawson, having initially partnered Max Verstappen at Red Bull earlier than a swap with Yuki Tsunoda noticed him return to the crew’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 time break concerning the areas that he can be specializing in as ones to enhance throughout the the rest of the marketing campaign, Lawson responded: “If I used to be to simply choose an space, total, it is Qualifying.
“With how necessary it’s in the mean time as a result of everyone’s very shut, even on tracks which might 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 gotten 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 aspect, has been usually in a median Qualifying. The place our weekends have been robust, it is once we qualify nicely.
“That is the primary goal: simply extracting every thing, ensuring we now have the automobile in the perfect place going into Qualifying, after which for me getting every thing out of it and doing a greater job.”
Reflecting again on the yr to date, Lawson admitted that issues have now develop into extra steady following a frenetic begin, and voiced his hope that Racing Bulls can proceed to attain good factors throughout the second half of the season.
“It has been busy,” the 23-year-old stated. “It has been a whirlwind, particularly at the beginning of the yr. Very surprising, and what was most likely a rocky begin has now stabilised and we’re in a greater place.
“The pace’s been there a lot of the yr, and it is good that we’re lastly capable of 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 shouldn’t be sufficient.
“Going ahead into the second half of the yr, we’re making an attempt to duplicate this extra. Proper now, with how shut it’s, it is the little issues that make an enormous distinction. Attempting to extract every thing every weekend.”
