Liam Lawson eyeing future Supercars outings

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Racing Bulls driver Liam Lawson is raring to affix his Formulation 1 rivals in contesting different racing championships, with Supercars being one collection he’d “love” to strive.

Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll are two drivers to have gone GT racing this 12 months after rising pissed off with the 2026 F1 rules, and Lawson was mooted for one thing comparable.

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Australian outlet MotorRacing 360 reported that the Kiwi had been approached by groups in Supercars to contest the forthcoming New Zealand-based rounds in Taupo and/or Christchurch.

This is able to have been potential resulting from F1’s enforced April break, however Lawson thinks coming into Australasia’s premier touring automobile collection is one thing for later in his profession.

The 24-year-old instructed media together with Motorsport: “I landed in New Zealand, and my telephone was blown up with, like, ‘oh Liam, you are racing Supercars subsequent week’ and I used to be like, ‘I did not even know I used to be racing Supercars subsequent week’.

“So, I do not actually know the way everyone else appears to know that I am racing a supercar subsequent week. However yeah, it was a really cool concept.

“It is clearly a collection that I’ve grown up watching and I’d like to do it sooner or later for certain. Clearly, when my life shouldn’t be so targeted on one factor, perhaps, and I can truly put the time in to organize for it could be cool. However yeah, clearly no actual reality to that one.”

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It will add to the varied different championships Lawson has entered, having completed runner-up in each DTM (2021) and Tremendous Formulation (2023), plus profitable the 2019 New Zealand Grand Prix.

When requested additional if he’d prefer to strive extra racing outdoors of F1, he replied: “Positively, I’ve completed it up to now and liked it. I feel at all times having that degree of adaptability is nice, I am fortunate that I’ve had the chance to do this since I used to be very younger.

“Supercars, particularly, is one thing I’ve grown up watching and I feel the collection is superb. They do such an excellent job to maintain the automobiles uncooked, they nonetheless have V8s naturally aspirated, they’ve sequential gearboxes which they are not going away from, they are not going in the direction of paddle shifts and different issues.

“They’re managing every part themselves and I feel that is simply such a cool factor and the racing has been actually, actually good as nicely. So I just like the collection loads, it is one thing I’d like to do. I’ve pushed the automobile a few instances and simply had a blast.

“However different collection as nicely, I did DTM a couple of years in the past and loved it. Hated the best way it ended,” referring to how he misplaced the title to Maximilian Gotz on the ultimate day, “however I loved the season by way of the 12 months and attending to work with a special crew in a really, very completely different collection.

“[A driver can] be a bit extra aggressive, throw some dive bombs, slam some doorways, stuff like that, one thing we will not do an excessive amount of in Formulation 1. So it was good enjoyable, I am at all times attempting to do stuff like that even when it is in numerous sports activities, I am using a mud bike loads as nicely and having fun with it.”

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