Liam Lawson faces grid penalty on F1 return - here's why

Liam Lawson will ⭕face a grid drop at the F1 United States Grand Prix, it has been revealed.

Liam Lawson
Liam Lawson

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson is set for a 10-place grid penalty when he returns to F1 at next month’s United States Grand Prix.

The 22-year-old New Zealander has been drafted in at RB - Red Bull’s sister team - to contest the final six races of the season as a replacement for the underperforming 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Daniel Ricciardo.

Lawson’s first race back in a year will come at the 𓆉Circuit of the Americas in Austin, where he will face a grid penalty due to an engine swap, it has emerg👍ed.

Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko confirmed in an interview with Motorsport-Total that Lawson will be hit with a grid drop i🌼n the United States.

"The first [race], I think, wo🔯n't be relevant because he has an engine penalty,” Marko revealed. “Ten places in the sprint race, so that doesn't exactly make life easier in Austin.”

Speaking to New Zealand’s Newstalk ZB radio station after the driver swap was confirmed, Lawson 🐬ackno꧑wledged the challenge he faces.

“Obv💞iously I’m very happy, but it’s six rounds left in the season, so𒅌 I’m coming in at a difficult time,” he said.

“It’s going 𓄧to be a very challenging point. All these [drivers] have done three quarters of a season now, so I have to try and compete with that – at tracks that I haven’t done [driv♚en at] as well.

“It’s 🅠going to be challenging. I’ve spoken to my parents, obviously, and spoken to everybody that’s been behin🥀d me on this journey. It’s very, very special, but we don’t have much time to really let it sink in – we’ve got to get straight to work.”

Lawson added: “It’s funny, because when I found out and I got to call everybody, the first sorಌt of words or the first things they said, all of them including my dad, my mum and everybody, all the sponsors behind me from day one, I could hear the relief in their voi🧜ce before anything.

“It wasn’t excitement, it was just pure relief, which is also 🐽how I felt tඣo be honest, because it’s been obviously a huge journey and a lot of people have put a lot into this, so it was very exciting.”

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