Liam Lawson

Studied exams when I was a kid and...

grateful for it now because it gave me the base to sort of be able to play but at the time I didn't enjoy it like it was really it was so intense that I was just always every time I picked up a guitar it was studying an exam book trying to study for this exam and I stopped playing because of it because I was like I just can't do this anymore and then I stopped for like five or six years and then picked it back up again and since then I've only played stuff that I want to play and that I want to do

see look at that full circle moment though like when we started talking about you drive and you drive as a kid for the pleasure of it yeah but does it do I play better I don't know I don't know if I play any better because of it but it is important I mean for sure it's important to enjoy what you do and try and get the enjoyment out of it but it is like you know we have a good result and it's

It really doesn't.

Maybe for me it's because I haven't achieved the goal I set out to do.

So these feel like maybe steps along the way.

Have a P7, a P5, whatever it is.

Qualify third last year.

Those are more feel like moments along the way.

And they really don't last long.

They last, yeah, an hour.

I have one that goes to every single hotel I stay in and every single dry room at the track.

Basically, I have a guitar in there, so I can just pick it up and play it.

Do you ever play it before a race?

Yeah, 100%.

I mean, Arvid and those guys have to sit and listen to me playing in the office all the time.

What's your pre-race tune?

Well, for warm-up, I'll listen to music and get much more amped up.

But for in-between sessions, I'll just play.

It's mainly, probably mainly country music because it's quite easy to play.