Liam Lawson

But,

We'd go out there, it'd be a wet day and somebody told him that it was a good idea for me to run on slicks.

So he would, you know, that's what we'd do and I'd go out there on my go-kart and he'd stand on a corner and tell me, this is where you got to break.

Like this is where you have to break, where I'm standing.

And as a kid, obviously, if your dad tells you that, you're just going to do that.

So I would and he would just keep taking a step.

Again, this is all stuff like I find out afterwards, but he would just keep taking a step until literally I would fire off the end of the straight.

Found your limit.

And that's the limit.

And then I would start breaking there and stuff like that was what we'd do growing up.

But he gave me the mindset because my dad is one of the hardest working people that I know and watching him as a kid growing up working with the work ethic that he had and he would tell me that if you work hard enough for something, since I was very young, if you work hard enough for something that you can achieve it.

And there's so much negativity in New Zealand especially and Australia and that part of the world where...

to like, if you're a kid, like I go to a go-kart track now and, you know, kids, you know, want photos and autographs and stuff like that.

And I'll ask them, what do you want to race?

And like, honestly, a seven year old kid would tell me, oh, I want to be a Formula One driver like you, but it's too hard.

You know, it's too impossible.

You know, my dad told me it's too expensive.

And I'm like, you're seven years old.

You can't, as much as something is very hard and very unrealistic, I feel like it's a terrible mindset or terrible thing to teach your son to have that mindset.

And that's where I feel lucky that my parents told me if I wanted to do something and I worked hard enough for it.