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Lawson fights 'few teething gremlins' in Bahrain with clear target
For Liam Lawson, pre-season tests are already over in Bahrain. After having the chance to drive throught the two sessions on Thursday, he will watch Max Verstappen in the RB21 on Friday. The driver from New Zealand reacted to his final two sessions of the week.
Lawson is getting 'more comfortable' with the RB21
Not only the weather made this day more challenging for the youngster. First throughout the morning, Lawson lost important time because of a water pump issue, and as a result, necessary repairs had to done by the Red Bull crew. Over the course of the afternoon session, he also spent more time in the garage, as the team worked on the setup. Overall, Lawson finished the day with the seventh fastest time in Sakhir.
I am getting more comfortable in the car, it has been a busy day overall. As part of testing, we were fighting a few teething gremlins with the car through the day, it’s all about just learning about the new car. A few of our runs were cut short a little bit and we had to deal with the weather too, which wasn’t great timings for our run plan, as I imagine was the case for most of the pitlane," Lawson began in his team's press release.
First up, the grid will visit the closest Grand Prix to Lawson's home country, Australia. "All this work is extremely valuable going into Melbourne and we feel in a positive place. This is all the most important stuff when it comes to pre-season, this will be the last time I drive the car before Melbourne, to get things right and we are going to take from all of it, to put together the best-balanced car for the first race," the driver concluded.
This article was written in collaboration with Ludo van Denderen
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