Helmut Marko: “Liam Lawson could not fulfill pressure down”

The Red Bull Advisor and a strong man within the team spoke, faithful to his style, after the official announcement of Enroque between the Energy Drinks, which sent the Neozygous to Racing Bulls and promoted Yuki Tsunoda to the main team.

The almost martial handling of Helmut Marko is a classic within Red Bull. The Austrian expiloto and sports advisor of the energy drinks team does not hide their roughness every time he speaks. From the catalog of hard and almost hurtful phrases that proliferated in recent years, a very recent example can be taken as an example: “It was shameful.” Thus he described how he felt when he saw Isack Hadjar’s cry after hitting Australia’s previous return with Racing Bulls and frustrating his long -awaited and dreamed debut in Formula 1. At this time, the beaten was Liam Lawson, the New Zealand who was anointed to the head of the main team to accompany Max Verstappen and who lasted just two races. This Thursday, the team officially announced the castle that sent the oceanic back to team B and promoted Yuki Tsunoda.

Tsunoda and Lawson were the options to replace Checo Pérez for 2025 And the Red Bull popes bowed to the Neozylelands, who barely had 11 major experience awards. By explaining the reasons for the first election and current change in statements to the Austrian medium OE24, Marko said: “AndUKI was too inconsistent. That is why we chose Lawson unanimously. But under the growing pressure, he could not meet from the first day in Australia. Then, he entered a descending spiral. It is like a boxer who was shot down; It is very difficult to leave. In that sense, it was a mistake. “

Then, Marko made an analysis of Lawson’s short step on the RB21: “In Australia he had a problem in Turbo in the third training session. He misses the kilometers he lost for that reason. What he did so far, of course, was too little. We needed a second strong pilot, even if only for tactical equipment issues.”

Lawson failed to overcome Q1 in any of the three classifications in which he participated (one in Australia and the two of China, for Sprint and main race) and did not score points, the great objective of Red Bull to fight for the crown of builders. Although with the walk demonstrated by the RB21, thinking of being team champion seems like a very high objective.