Liam Lawson believes his career-best sixth place within the Austrian Grand Prix might show pivotal to his hopes of getting a robust season with Racing Bulls.
The New Zealander opened the yr at Pink 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 underneath rising scrutiny and admits his excessive confidence ranges had been proving robust to keep up amid a scarcity of outcomes earlier than his robust return on Sunday.
“For positive at the back of your thoughts,” Lawson advised SiriusXM. “For me this yr, I felt actually assured and comfy, however you recognize the end result’s not there, and to have one come by means 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, generally when it’s a tricky yr like this, a end result like this makes the distinction, so I’m very completely satisfied.”
Lawson individually acknowledged that he felt totally different facets 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 yr. A really robust yr with quite a lot of potential. I got here into F1 and even final yr had a couple of races and most of them transformed very properly, and generally you possibly can have all the boldness and pace on the earth and so they do not [convert], and it felt like that this yr. So to lastly have a result’s superb however we have to clearly hold doing this as properly.
“The final couple of weekends I feel in Canada we had actually good pace in follow, Barcelona had good pace in follow, Monaco as properly and the end result did not convert.
“We have been pushing so much with the automotive and particularly our aspect of the storage they have been doing quite a lot of work to make me comfy and we made some adjustments this weekend and so they’ve labored very well.
“We have to clearly hold pushing however it’s generally like that in F1, generally the pace and every part may be there however there’s quite a lot of variables on this sport and so they’ve labored for us this weekend.”
