Liam Lawson on his 'once-in-a-lifetime' opportunity - 2024 United States GP Preview
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
How long has Lawson’s comeback been in the works? What do Red Bull expect of him in these final six races of 2024? Does he have his eyes on a seat alongside Max Verstappen next year?
Also on the agenda, Liam talks about how Red Bull Motorsport Advisor Helmut Marko has prepared him for the sport’s extreme pressures and what it means to represent New Zealand in F1.
Plus, Tom and Damon discuss the challenges presented by the Circuit of the Americas, expected upgrades for Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari, and what Haas’s new technical partnership with Toyota means for their future.
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| 0:00.0 | Formula One is back. We have six Grand Prix and three F1 sprints left to decide the 2024 World Championship. |
| 0:15.0 | Max Vassapenley's Lando Norris by 53 points in the driver's standings |
| 0:20.0 | with 204 still up for grabs. |
| 0:22.0 | So will Max become a four-time world champion, or will |
| 0:26.4 | Lando Norris win his first title? |
| 0:29.6 | Both will be looking to lay down a huge marker in Austin this weekend. |
| 0:34.5 | So welcome to F1 Nations preview of the United States Grand Prix with me Tom Clarkson |
| 0:40.4 | and I'm joined by the 1996 world champion Damon Hill |
| 0:45.0 | Damon how are you and what have you been up to since we last spoke? |
| 0:49.0 | Well yes I've been trying to think of things to do |
| 0:52.0 | I had to cancel I get this, right? This is the life of a retired formula on trial. |
| 0:57.0 | I basically had to cancel a cycling trip in Italy because I got press ganged into coming to Janfanko Zola's charity |
| 1:06.7 | golf tournament in Sardinia which I loved and I obviously wanted to do but he kind of came on after I'd booked the cycling. |
| 1:15.1 | So basically I had to disappoint the people who put on the cycling which who are very, very important |
| 1:21.0 | to us because they supported our our charity HALO for 10 years or |
| 1:25.4 | more raised over a million pounds these lovely guys who organized our cycling charity |
| 1:29.8 | cycling anyway so I had to disappoint them and go and do a golf tournament in Sardinia. |
| 1:34.4 | It's a tough life, Tom, and I'm sure you're kind of thinking, you poor thing. |
| 1:38.8 | You poor thing, you know, and decisions you have to make. |
| 1:41.6 | I'm thinking, decisions, decisions, and was it worth it? Did you play well? |
| 1:45.8 | I didn't play great. I got better as time went by, but you know, golf is a massively frustrating thing. |
| 1:52.0 | But one of the things that happened |
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