F1: Liam Lawson is still lost with Red Bull

The New Zealand failed to advance Q1 in the classification for the Chinese GP sprint. After Australia’s career he needed an improvement to convince the team’s popes. For now, in debt.

Many notes, posts, comments and publications aimed at the pressure Jack Doohan lives inside Alpine. Even the director of the French team recognized him. But if there is someone in the mute of Formula 1 who is capable of pressing its pilots to the maximum it is Helmut Markothe Red Bull advisor and a man who has no problem lowering his thumb as a runner occurs to him. Precisely the Austrian is the sword of Damocles that Liam Lawson has todayMax Verstappen’s partner.

The New Zealander landed on Red Bull with just 11 large awards in his backpackall played in the second team of energy drinks (five with Alpha Touri in 2023 and six in Racing Bulls in 2024). Lawson was aguerrido, fast and firm to fight positions, a reason that led the popes of the team to promote him directly to the armchair of the Milton Keyenes team in replacement of the dismissed Czech Pérez. The Mexican had a signed contract for 2025, but not even released it: his performance took Marko and Chrstian Horner, the director, to lower it.

ABU Dhabi 2024’s postseason test was the time that Red Bull gave Yuki Tsunoda (also a pilot of the Austrian structure) to try on the RB20, but did not convince. Already before the trial the decision was taken. Hope was deposited in Lawson. But the story began crooked.

In Australia, the 23 -year -old was far away all weekend. While a technical problem in the RB21 left it without turning in the third training, it failed to advance Q1 (it was 18) in the classification. In the race, with the rain and on a clue where he had never run, everything ended up in turn 44, but was never competitive. In fact, the best thing he had achieved in those turns was to have only the weak Haas behind.

With the injured soul and the need to recover, it arrived in China. But it didn’t happen. He suffered a slight mistake at the start of the only training of the second date of the year. Already in the classification for the Sprint, he committed sons -in -law at home launched and was last. Drawing a comparison with his teammate in this case would be an injustice for the New Zealander, because Verstappen is on another planet and destroyed each one who sat next to him. But, clearly, the Red Bull, however indócile, is not a car to not go from Q1. We will have to see how much more Marko gives before giving hand. The background of changes are, Daniil Kvyat, Alex Albon, Daniel Ricciardo, Nyck de Vries, Pierre Gasly and Czech Pérez can be asked.