Liam Lawson has defined how he was shocked by the brand new era of F1 automotive not being as bodily simple as he anticipated.
With the automobiles being narrower and smaller for 2026, nook speeds have diminished, with the necessity to harvest power earlier than lengthy straights additionally decreasing the speeds for drivers.
However, though the speeds are diminished and the G-forces usually are not as excessive, the diminished speeds do imply that drivers spend extra time in corners.
Owing to the diminished speeds, Lawson initially felt the 2026 automobiles could be simpler to deal with, however defined how he improper with that evaluation.
“To be fair, even though you’re slower through the corners, you spend more time in the corners,” Lawson advised media, together with RacingNews365.
“It is still hard on the neck, so I was expecting it to be a lot easier, but it is actually not that different.
“These automobiles are in contrast to something I’ve ever pushed; they are a very, very new type of driving, and it does not relate to a lot else.”
When asked about how the new F1 machines relate to F2, Lawson felt the idiosyncrasies of the 2026 cars actually push the two categories even further apart.
“Formula 1 has all the time been extraordinarily quick, and it by no means actually associated to F2, anyway,” he said.
“So I believe the hole from F2 to F1 was all the time too huge, and it’s not that it’s smaller this yr, it is that Formula 1 is barely slower, however very totally different to drive, so possibly it relates even much less.”
