Liam Lawson has cited Qualifying as the primary space through which he hopes to enhance getting 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 group’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 might be specializing in as ones to enhance in the course of the the rest of the marketing campaign, Lawson responded: “If I used to be to only choose an space, general, it is Qualifying.
“With how vital it’s for the time being as a result of all people’s very shut, even on tracks which might be perhaps simpler to overhaul, it is nonetheless troublesome as a result of you do not have a 3, 4, five-tenth tempo benefit. You’ve got like a one or two-tenth tempo benefit, and that is very arduous to overhaul.
“Qualifying is essential, it units up your weekend. The place our weekends have fallen away, no less than on my aspect, has been usually in a mean Qualifying. The place our weekends have been robust, it is after we qualify effectively.
“That is the primary goal: simply extracting all the pieces, ensuring we’ve got the automotive in the very best place going into Qualifying, after which for me getting all the pieces 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 in the course of the second half of the season.
“It has been busy,” the 23-year-old mentioned. “It has been a whirlwind, particularly firstly of the yr. Very sudden, and what was most likely a rocky begin has now stabilised and we’re in a greater place.
“The velocity’s been there a lot of the yr, and it is good that we’re lastly capable of get a few good outcomes. As a complete, we have to be doing that extra. To have two or three of these races over the primary half of the season will not be sufficient.
“Going ahead into the second half of the yr, we’re attempting to duplicate this extra. Proper now, with how shut it’s, it is the little issues that make an enormous distinction. Making an attempt to extract all the pieces every weekend.”
