Apr.18 (GMM) Liam Lawson insists his confidence isn’t in tatters after his expertise at Pink Bull.
The workforce missed Yuki Tsunoda late final yr to as a substitute enroll Lawson for the 2025 season. However Lawson struggled so badly alongside Max Verstappen that he was swapped out for Tsunoda after simply two races.
Though a major hole to Verstappen nonetheless exists, the workforce is proud of Tsunoda and Dr Helmut Marko says the Japanese driver will stay within the automobile all season.
“I’m proud of how I progressed within the final two races,” Tsunoda mentioned in Saudi Arabia. “It has gone barely higher than I assumed, in all probability.
“The arrogance is there. Not 100% good, nevertheless it’s there.”
It’s well-known that the Racing Bulls automobile – Lawson’s new seat – is less complicated to drive, arrange, and handle the tyres, serving to to rebuild the New Zealander’s confidence after the Pink Bull Racing expertise.
Nevertheless, the 23-year-old insists that his confidence didn’t even take a knock.
“If we’re speaking about confidence, nothing has modified because the begin of the yr,” Lawson mentioned. “I wasn’t at Pink Bull Racing lengthy sufficient to look again on my efficiency in two races and assume that due to the automobile points I’ve forgotten the right way to drive.
“Nothing of the kind,” he added. “It was a really unhealthy two weekends at Pink Bull, and there have been quite a lot of components that contributed to that. However my confidence hasn’t modified.”
