“I was pretty much just on a gearbox of a car the entire race. We had really good speed, just couldn’t use it. To be honest, the only way I could overtake was lunging quite late, I wasn’t intentionally touching with others, but it is what it is. Last stint was okay, obviously just a shame,” he added.
“It’s a shame we don’t have a result to show it, the car was really fast in Quali, didn’t get to show it and then the car was really fast in the race, but you don’t get to show it from the back.”
After two race weekends back with Racing Bulls, Lawson will be hoping something starts to click for him in Jeddah, with 17th and 16th his results since his Red Bull demotion, while his best qualifying of the year so far is just 14th.
The New Zealander is one of just four drivers yet to score in 2025 – along with Alpine’s Jack Doohan, Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto and two-time champion, Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso – while Hadjar has four points to his name so far this year.
