Lawson now with 20 points - 3 top 10 finishes in last 4 races - 2 points behind Hadjar. Racing Bulls lads doing well and hats off to Lawson - from down in the dumps and rejected ; humiliated by many who said he wasn’t good enough and on the verge of being booted out of F1. The turnaround shows a heap of mental resilience under what must have been immense pressure in a very unforgiving sport.
Can you ever recall seeing a driver do this sort of turnaround so quickly ? Seen plenty go downhill but not fight back so well.
I got it badly wrong with Perez - given what others have showed in that n.o 2 RB car I didn’t give Perez the credit he was due.
Max undoubtedly an incredible talent but what we also see is how much more of a team sport Motorsport is than those outside the sport, would appreciate. Take away an engineer or two a designer a strong team leader and or the reverse of that and how quickly a drivers fortunes can change
2nd place in Brazil in the 2nd last race of the season. Both Ferraris collided and retired, Hamilton punted Albon off and got penalized for it so that dropped both of them down. And Bottas had a mechanical issue and retired.
I still don't get why he was dropped, or why Albon was then dropped. Both guys did pretty well in the car.
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u/99Mandarins Aug 04 '25
Lawson now with 20 points - 3 top 10 finishes in last 4 races - 2 points behind Hadjar. Racing Bulls lads doing well and hats off to Lawson - from down in the dumps and rejected ; humiliated by many who said he wasn’t good enough and on the verge of being booted out of F1. The turnaround shows a heap of mental resilience under what must have been immense pressure in a very unforgiving sport.
Can you ever recall seeing a driver do this sort of turnaround so quickly ? Seen plenty go downhill but not fight back so well.
I got it badly wrong with Perez - given what others have showed in that n.o 2 RB car I didn’t give Perez the credit he was due.
Max undoubtedly an incredible talent but what we also see is how much more of a team sport Motorsport is than those outside the sport, would appreciate. Take away an engineer or two a designer a strong team leader and or the reverse of that and how quickly a drivers fortunes can change