Liam Lawson believes his career-best sixth place within the Austrian Grand Prix may show pivotal to his hopes of getting a robust season with Racing Bulls.
The New Zealander opened the 12 months at Crimson Bull however was demoted after simply two races, and had solely scored factors in Monaco since returning to Racing Bulls in April. With teammate Isack Hadjar impressing, Lawson was coming beneath rising scrutiny and admits his excessive confidence ranges have been proving robust to keep up amid a scarcity of outcomes earlier than his robust return on Sunday.
“For positive behind your thoughts,” Lawson informed SiriusXM. “For me this 12 months, I felt actually assured and comfy, however the end result’s not there, and to have one come by way of may be very, very cool.
“We’re all mentally robust, all of us work very had on our mindset, however it doesn’t matter what, typically when it’s a tricky 12 months like this, a end result like this makes the distinction, so I’m very completely happy.”
Lawson individually said that he felt totally different points had not all aligned for him throughout sure race weekends when had proven robust tempo earlier this season, and is conscious he must capitalize on a extra common foundation.
“It has been an extremely robust 12 months. A really robust 12 months with numerous potential. I got here into F1 and even final 12 months had just a few races and most of them transformed very effectively, and typically you may have all the arrogance and velocity on the earth they usually do not [convert], and it felt like that this 12 months. So to lastly have a result’s superb however we have to clearly hold doing this as effectively.
“The final couple of weekends I believe in Canada we had actually good velocity in observe, Barcelona had good velocity in observe, Monaco as effectively and the end result did not convert.
“We have been pushing so much with the automobile and particularly our aspect of the storage they have been doing numerous work to make me comfy and we made some modifications this weekend they usually’ve labored very well.
“We have to clearly hold pushing however it’s typically like that in F1, typically the velocity and all the pieces could be there however there’s numerous variables on this sport they usually’ve labored for us this weekend.”
