Red Bull's latest F1 hopeful Lawson achieved an unprecedented feat by winning on his Super Formula debut last weekend. Now can he emulate Gasly to secure a drive in grand prix racing? JamieKlein_ analyses:
At around 4pm Japanese time on Saturday, Liam Lawson's phone wouldn't stop vibrating.
So just how did the ice-cool Kiwi - who likewise won on his race debuts in Formula 2, DTM, Euroformula Open and the Toyota Racing Series - end up defying his own prediction that it would take him time to build up to the level where he could hope to challenge his team-mate Nojiri? "His feedback is not as good as it could be because he still doesn't have much experience in Super Formula, but he is able to take advantage of Nojiri's feedback, and we had a good base set-up anyway from last year, so I want to say thanks to Ukyo!"
Lawson made a clean start from third on Saturday to hold that position early on, making a better fist of Super Formula's notoriously tricky hand clutch than fellow rookies Kakunoshin Ota andGetting on top of Super Formula's tricky hand clutch off the line in Saturday's race contributed to Lawson's victory chargefor second following an early safety car period - both cars ran off-track at the fast Turn 3 left-hander but the move was allowed to stand - Lawson was in a position to...
Nojiri admitted afterwards he had no response to Lawson's searing pace, and Mugen team director Hirokatsu Tanaka was generous in his praise of the squad's new signing.
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