It’s been as chaotic an Australian Grand Prix as we expected it to be, and with now Red Bull’s Liam Lawson crashing out of the Melbourne race.
As the rain started to come down once more, Turn 2 saw the driver spin under power, joining the likes of Fernando Alonso, Isack Hadjar, Carlos Sainz, Jack Doohan, and Gabriel Bortoleto, as he span and hit the wall backwards.
On medium tyres, the track proved to simply be too wet for the driver as his Milton Keynes machine slipped on the painted white lines.
Lawson has struggled so far this weekend, qualifying in P18. 15 places behind his team-mate Max Verstappen.
“We expected the start of quali’ to be tough,” the Kiwi said. “To be honest, the first laps were expected to be off, and then we were just planning on building through the session. But obviously going off on that second lap put everything out of order a bit.
Liam Lawson, Red Bull Racing
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“And then [the] last lap was good, honestly, just until the last sector where I had a big drop so yeah missing P3 obviously doesn’t help any of this, but I shouldn’t be going off in Quali.”
