Liam Lawson said Thursday that he was determined to prove that it belongs to Formula 1 after what he called the “difficult” surprise to be host by Red Bull after only two races. The New Zealander was replaced by Yuki Tsunoda from the Japanese Grand Prix of this weekend following a disastrous departure which saw him not scoring points. Lawson returns to Red Bull Rb’s sister team to take the headquarters of Tsunoda after having run 11 Grands Prix for them for two seasons before. The 23 -year -old admitted that his sudden demotion was “something that I did not expect so early”.
“I was hoping to go on a track that I had run before and spend a clean weekend,” he told Suzuka, before the third weekend of the 2025 campaign race.
“The decision was made, I was told, so even if it was difficult to hear, I had one or two days to think about it, then I started preparations, then you are simply focused on work.
“I have the opportunity to be always in Formula 1 and the race, and that’s the essential for me,” he added.
The two Grands Prix de Lawson with Red Bull were in Australia and China, tracks he had never run before.
He said that the decision to demote it was “an agreement concluded” when the director of Red Bull, Christian Horner, called him in the days that followed Shanghai.
But Lawson said that experience had not affected his confidence and would serve motivation.
“For me, the main thing is to be in a car and to have the opportunity to prove why I belong here,” he said.
“And that’s what I will try to do and that’s what I do every time I get into the car, and that’s what I’m going to do this weekend.”
He added: “We all have enough self -confidence to be there.
“If you don’t have that, it makes things very difficult. It doesn’t really change what I feel for me.”
Lawson said the return to Red Bull in the future was not in thought at the moment.
“Everything that happens on the line is out of my control,” he said.
“What I can control is driving. Where the future goes, I don’t really think about it.”
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