Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson is raring to affix his System 1 rivals in contesting different racing championships, with Supercars being one collection he’d “love” to attempt.
Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll are two drivers to have gone GT racing this 12 months after rising pissed off with the 2026 F1 laws, and Lawson was mooted for one thing related.
Australian outlet MotorRacing 360 reported that the Kiwi had been approached by groups in Supercars to contest the forthcoming New Zealand-based rounds in Taupo and/or Christchurch.
This may have been attainable as a consequence of F1’s enforced April break, however Lawson thinks getting into Australasia’s premier touring automotive collection is one thing for later in his profession.
The 24-year-old instructed media together with Motorsport: “I landed in New Zealand, and my telephone was blown up with, like, ‘oh Liam, you are racing Supercars subsequent week’ and I used to be like, ‘I did not even know I used to be racing Supercars subsequent week’.
“So, I do not actually understand how all people else appears to know that I am racing a supercar subsequent week. However yeah, it was a really cool concept.
“It is clearly a collection that I’ve grown up watching and I’d like to do it in some unspecified time in the future for positive. Clearly, when my life is just not so targeted on one factor, possibly, and I can truly put the time in to organize for it will be cool. However yeah, clearly no actual reality to that one.”
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It will add to the varied different championships Lawson has entered, having completed runner-up in each DTM (2021) and Tremendous System (2023), plus successful the 2019 New Zealand Grand Prix.
When requested additional if he’d prefer to attempt extra racing outdoors of F1, he replied: “Positively, I’ve executed it up to now and beloved it. I feel at all times having that stage of adaptability is sweet, I am fortunate that I’ve had the chance to do this since I used to be very younger.
“Supercars, particularly, is one thing I’ve grown up watching and I feel the collection is wonderful. They do such a very good job to maintain the vehicles uncooked, they nonetheless have V8s naturally aspirated, they’ve sequential gearboxes which they don’t seem to be going away from, they don’t seem to be going in direction of paddle shifts and different issues.
“They’re managing all the pieces themselves and I feel that is simply such a cool factor and the racing has been actually, actually good as effectively. So I just like the collection loads, it is one thing I’d like to do. I’ve pushed the automotive a few instances and simply had a blast.
“However different collection as effectively, I did DTM just a few years in the past and loved it. Hated the way in which it ended,” referring to how he misplaced the title to Maximilian Gotz on the ultimate day, “however I loved the season by way of the 12 months and attending to work with a special group in a really, very completely different collection.
“[A driver can] be a bit extra aggressive, throw some dive bombs, slam some doorways, stuff like that, one thing we won’t do an excessive amount of in System 1. So it was good enjoyable, I am at all times attempting to do stuff like that even when it is in numerous sports activities, I am driving a dust bike loads as effectively and having fun with it.”
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