Despite being happy with his Racing Bulls car speed, Liam Lawson expected more having qualified 11th fastest for the Sprint Race at the Belgium Grand Prix held at the Spa Francorchamps Circuit.
“The car has been fast, but we had a small issue in the last chicane,” said Lawson. “It’s the tiny things that make a difference, so this unfortunately knocked us out.
“Obviously we’ll take the learnings from today and try to fix them ahead of tomorrow. Like every other weekend, it’s important that we extract every little bit out of the car.
“Wind changes make quite a big difference here, as it did a few weeks ago at Silverstone, but the key thing is to bring everything together as a team which is what we’ll be pushing to do for the rest of the weekend.”
“Overall a positive day for us today, we are conscious we didn’t maximise our potential, but it’s still a very good result with P9 and P11,” commented Mattie Spini, Racing Bulls Chief Race Engineer. “We probably left a bit on the table with Liam, not taking advantage of track evolution in SQ2 and with Isack (Hadjar), we didn’t have a perfect lap in SQ3, but it’s a good starting position tomorrow for the Sprint.
“We are going to work tonight on the simulator to improve the car whilst we can. The Sunday race looks wet at the moment so we’ll take that into consideration, and we are running a little bit of a higher downforce than our competitors, so hopefully that will play in our favour.
“All in all, the drivers are happy with the car and we have the potential there, we just need to put it all together to be fast and competitive both tomorrow and Sunday.”
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