Liam Lawson has recalled the moment that saved his career as the Red Bull junior prepares for his first full season with VCARB in 2025.
The New Zealand racer was announced as the successor to Daniel Ricciardo, who has been axed by the team after a disappointing season back on the F1 grid.
But Lawson revealed he nearly didn’t make it to the summit of motorsport after a sliding doors moment at a test in Hockenheim, Germany in 2019. A week later, he got the call-up to race for Red Bull and never looked back.
“I did that first season in Europe, and I had a good season but I didn’t have any call-ups from any teams,” Lawson said on the Talking Bull podcast.
“Now I just did this championship in New Zealand over the off-season, with no plan of what I was doing in 2019, and I got basically picked up at the perfect time and it saved my career.
“Without it, I had four weeks left of that championship and then I had no plan after that.”
