Visa Cash App Racing Bulls Liam Lawson has qualified 15th having made it through to Q2 for the 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix while teammate Isack Hadjar starts from ninth after making it through to Q3 in qualifying for Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
“After a difficult Friday, we made several changes on the car setup from data analysis and simulator running, which have seemed to have worked well,” commented Guillaume Dezoteux, Racing Bulls Head of Performnace. “Q1 was intense with the entire field within less than one second of lap time. We decided to offset ourselves to avoid traffic, and it appeared to pay off.
“The same approach in Q2 was riskier as we were missing the last bits of track evolution, but Isack managed to get through. Unfortunately, Liam made a mistake in T4 of his first Q2 attempt; in his second lap he wasn’t improving so we decided to abort and try again, but his tyres were already dropping in performance.
“Luckily Isack managed to secure the ninth place in Q3, which rewards a solid session from him and the team. The race strategy looks quite defined with most of the cars on the same tyre allocation. The race start is critical here with the long run down to T1, so we will push on both drivers to train their launch procedure in the morning.”
“The car was fast today and we had a strong Q1,: said Lawson. “In Q2, I struggled with the balance and a mistake on the first lap made the rest of the session quite tricky. The second lap wasn’t very strong, so the team decided to abort and use a used tyre at the end. We ended up even slower, so it’s something we’ll be reviewing. It will be tough given where we’re starting from tomorrow, but we’ll be working hard as a team to push for points.”
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