Liam Lawson
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And what did that mean to you?
I think I just really, you know, appreciated it.
I think it was somebody that, you know, I think I was so excited to, not to go against him, but to go, you know, be in a team with him and, you know, be able to have the opportunity to basically be in a car that's the same as him and just see everything that he does and have a...
basically have a driving lesson from, you know, from the best in the sport, basically.
And that was something I was very excited for.
And I never went in there, you know, like these guys that go in there and talk about trying to, you know, go in and beat him straight away.
And it's just such a stupid thing to do.
I think it's more, you know, having somebody like him to learn off was very exciting for me.
This is one that like, that, yeah, was... So very first time I went into Formula One was Zandvoort and it was wet in FP3 and I'd never driven the car or the track, you know, together.
It was a very hard weekend and obviously it was when Daniel had his injury.
So I basically went out trying to learn the car, trying to drive on an intermediate side, which I'd never driven before.
And we're getting through the session and basically in a Formula One car, especially last year's cars and like the previous generation, you have to be so confident to drive these cars.
Like the commitment you have to have, which is also why the Red Bull thing was probably...
even more evident for me that it looked really, really tough is because even if you're at 99%, you're slow.
You're losing so much lap time.
You have to be so committed.
So it's wet.
And towards the end of the session, I was trying to build up confidence driving this car.
And we come around the sort of last corner, second to last corner, and I'm leading them by.
And Max comes by me and just power slides this Formula 1 car across the curb.