New Red Bull Formula 1 driver Liam Lawson has admitted that he shouldn💎꧙’t be making mistakes in such a crucial part of a race weekend after getting eliminated in Q1 for the Australian Grand Prix.

While four-time world ch꧅ampion Max Verstappen qualified a strong third at Albert Park Circuit on Saturday, new teammate Lawsoꦯn struggled to 18th on his maiden appearance with Red Bull, only beating the two Haas cars of Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman.

The 23-year-old was set to improve his time with two minutes left on the c🅠lock,𒁃 but he ran wide at Turn 15 and had to abort the lap.

While Lawson feels that his preparations for qualifying were less th♓an ideal, not helped by missing third p𒁏ractice entirely due to engine woes, he feels he only has himself to blame for the mistake that cost him a shot at getting into Q2.

“We expected the start of qualifying to be tough,” the Kiwi told Sky.📖 “To be honest, the first laps were expectℱed to be off and then we were just planning on building through the session.

“But obvious⭕ly going off the second lap put everything out of the order a bit.

“The last lap was good until the last sector, where I had a big drop. Obviously missing P3 obviously doesn't help any of us, but I shouldn't be going off i🌳n quali.”

Lawson posted a best time of 1m17.094s in qualifyi꧙ng, missing out on a Q2 bert🍃h by just under six tenths of a second.

Prior to his late off, he also had a major moment at the triﷺcky Turn 9/10 section on his final flying lap.

“Before Turn 9, we were about half a second up,” he r♈evealed. “Then obviously we would have just kept improving.

“I really had a snap through 9 and 10, I think the tyres were really starting to drop there. This is something that we have just been battling this weekend and obviously something we missed practicing in 🐭P3.”

With overtaking relatively difficult around the Albert Park Circuit in Melbꦫourne, Lawson is pinning his hopes on wet-weather conditions to salvage a weekend that has proven to be a baptism of fire so far.

“I haven't really done much high fuel running, so we felt like we had to stick with the car today, regardless of t𒀰his,” he said.

“Obviously Max is in a good position so we definitely made a step an🎐d obviously the weather tomorrow is variable so let's see.”