Australian Grand Prix result: Liam Lawson falls out in Wet when Lando Norris wins the Formula -1 season start

Previously, Lawson had worked effectively on the 13th position on the route and seemed to have resigned himself with Red Bull's irreconcilable RB21 car after fighting most of the race weekend. Ultimately, Red Bull's gambling cost to keep him away on a wet route, Lawson expensive.

“We took a chance in the hope that at least half of the route would stay dry,” said Lawson after the race.

“We hoped that at least half of the route would stay dry. We knew that Sector three was bad, but we thought that sector would stay dry, so we continued.

“Unfortunately it was a bucket with rain. I got off at this point because it was so wet. I just tried to stay on the right track.

“We really had problems being honest, I had many tire problems with the front at the beginning of the race.

“It was just a hard weekend.”

Now Lawson and Red Bull have to wait until the next Chinese Grand Prix of the next week to see where the Kiwi is really looking for its team to regain the constructor championship.

The extent of the task under the wet conditions was made clear before the race just started when the Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls turned two on the formation round in curve and destroyed its rear wing to cut the network to 19 drivers.

Before the end of the first round, this number fell to 17 when the couple of Alpines Jack Doohan and Williams' Carlos Sainz – who had won the same race for Ferrari last year – were both spun and forced to withdraw their cars with damage to their cars.

However, after the security car ran out, Lawson stood for a new set of between tires and held its position on the 16th before the race in the seventh round was completely resumed.

When the route dried, Lawson closed the gap on Haas by Esteban Ocon to less than 1.3 seconds, only for the rain in round 16. On the front of the raster, Lawson's fights with the RB21 from Verstappen, which went too far in curve, were reflected and overhauled by McLarens Oscar Piatri.

In round 20, Lawson finally climbed around Ocon and 15th place and took over overtaking on the same round nine, which had worried the drivers all weekend. But when Lawson slowly closes the gap on the clean by Gabriel Bortoleto in the 14th of Gabriel Bortoleto, the Kiwi was marked blue and overtaken by Norris, Piatri and Verstappen.

And when Fernando Alonso whirled in round 34 and triggered a yellow flag and security car, Lawson moved to 14th place and was able to compete for smooth tires when Red Bull put both cars on a sentence of fresh media when McLaren made himself more slow hardness.

When the security car ended in round 42 and Lawson was resumed less than two seconds ago by Bortoloeto, the Kiwi had effectively increased a place to 13th place when the clean driver was punished for an uncertain release.

But with 12 rounds a catastrophe beat. The call to switch to Slick tires was missing in the field when Piatri turned 45 in round 45 and sent the Melbournian back to the pitches on the back of the pack and the rest of the grid to return to intermediate products.

It was a sign of what would come because Piatris Spin caused a chain reaction in which several drivers lost control and completely changed the race regulations.

Lawson took into account the decision of Red Bull, although they are understandable – since the middle tires were not equipped for the wet conditions, since Bortoleto also found the wall.

With six rounds at the time the security car ended and more salt was rubbed in Lawson's wounds when the sun came out for the last rounds, Norris started in 2025 with the way he ended in 2024.

Alex Powell is an online sports editor for the NZ Herald. He has been a sports journalist since 2016 and previously worked for both Newshub and 1news.