Whereas Crimson Bull stand-in Liam Lawson says it’s unattainable to check the present RB22 with the earlier System 1 automobile he drove with the Austrian outfit, the Kiwi admits he felt a lot “extra comfy” within the automobile than he did throughout his first stint at Crimson Bull Racing.
The Racing Bulls driver was known as as much as race for the senior crew ultimately weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix within the place of the injured Isack Hadjar. It marked a return to Crimson Bull Racing for Lawson after he drove for the crew at first of the 2025 season, however was dropped after simply two races.
After managing to attain his greatest Crimson Bull outcome with seventh at Zandvoort, Lawson has now shed extra mild on his two experiences on the Milton Keynes-based crew.
“Truthfully, with how final 12 months was, with these two weekends, the way in which these weekends performed out, being two tracks I would by no means finished, I actually nonetheless do not assume I even have an opinion on what that automobile was to drive,” Lawson mentioned when requested by Motorsport.com about his experiences in final 12 months’s RB21.
“I really feel like I bought extra comfy on this [the RB22] in a weekend, so yeah, it’s extremely laborious to check.”
Liam Lawson raced two grands prix for Crimson Bull in 2025
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When requested for the sorts of variations between the RB22 and the VCARB 03, Lawson pointed to the differing aerodynamic philosophies deployed by the 2 groups.
“The automobile is totally completely different, clearly, aerodynamically,” he informed Motorsport.com. “And, as nicely, there’s all the time issues that, you understand, personally, as drivers, we attempt to make our automobiles comfy for us.
“And there is some issues that, while you change a automobile for a weekend, you may’t simply mechanically change these issues. So, there’s stuff on this automobile that are not the identical as mine, by way of simply driver consolation, that I’ve needed to get my head round. With out being too particular, however that is stuff that has in all probability been essentially the most difficult.”
Lawson was known as up after Hadjar injured his wrist whereas coaching over F1’s summer time break.
The crew has not but confirmed when the Frenchman will likely be deemed match sufficient to make his F1 return, however Hadjar revealed that MotoGP champion Marc Marquez warned him in opposition to dashing his return to competitors.
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