Liam Lawson says it is not on him when discussion is about reputation, – as he is focused on driving – it is on media on how they wish to portray.
Lawson has more or less enjoyed good reputation since making it in F1. His brief spells only helped him in securing the Red Bull seat. However, things didn’t go right with him in the first two rounds and he was moved back to Visa Cash App RB car, swapped with Yuki Tsunoda.
It took him few races, but Lawson has finally scored points at Visa Cash App RB, taking the fight to current teammate Isack Hadjar. He is not worried about the reputation side, though, which he thinks is not in his hands. It is for media to portray, while he can only drive and score points.
He notes that he has been driving well for few races now, but didn’t get the luck to score, which he eventually did in Monaco and followed it up with even better result in Austria. “For sure the best way to respond to anything is by performing well and that’s what we set out to do every weekend,” said Lawson to media. “In terms of reputation, I’m not sure.
“It’s probably something for you guys to speak on more because you’re the ones watching and with opinions on how we are as drivers and how our results are. I think it’s a very hard sport. There’s a lot of variables in Formula 1 and quite often you can have all the right ingredients, you can have speed and everything. I think we’ve had that for quite a while.
“It just never came together when it needed to and in Austria it did, which is great, but we need to continue doing that,” summed up Lawson. The Kiwi elaborated on getting things right during race weekends from the start itself after analysis between two races.
“I think we analyse exactly what happened last weekend and why everything clicked together and basically try and take that forward into every weekend,” continued Lawson. “Every track’s different, so one thing that’s the same every weekend that we have to do is continue developing over the weekend. With how close the margins are, there’s no time to sit on what you have.
“If you have a good session, you can start P1 in a really strong position and it just gives you no guarantee for the weekend because everybody else is chasing every session. But I think at the same time, because the margins are very close, it’s very important that the work you do before the weekend to start with a good platform. You want to start with the car in a good place and then it’s much easier to build on from that. If you start way off, it obviously makes things a lot more difficult.”
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