Liam Lawson was left to lament a “powerful” Miami Grand Prix as he was pressured to retire following Lap 1 contact, whereas crew mate Isack Hadjar completed agonisingly near factors in eleventh.
The Grand Prix capped a disappointing weekend for Racing Bulls, with Lawson initially scoring factors within the Dash earlier than being handed a time penalty that dropped him down the order after contact with Fernando Alonso.
Extra contact adopted within the Grand Prix, this time with Jack Doohan – who, it was introduced on Wednesday, could be benched at Alpine in favour of Franco Colapinto for not less than the following 5 rounds – who tapped Lawson right into a spin within the first nook.
That dropped the New Zealander to final and, though he tried to proceed, the injury was too nice and he wound up retiring halfway by the race.
“I don’t actually know what occurred,” Lawson defined. “I had a extremely good launch, and a spot opened up by the center into Flip 1 so I took it after which I simply felt a success from the facet into Flip 1. I don’t know what occurred, I would like to observe it again however then it clearly destroyed the ground so we needed to retire.
