Red Bull junior Liam Lawson causes scary crash, cars fly airborne

꧙The fact Team Mugen managed to fix Liam Lawson’s 💮car after this airplane crash is absolutely phenomenal , glad everyone is ok , well done Mugen’s Mechanics
— ahmed baokbah (@ahmed_baokbah)
The driver, as well as acting as Red Bull’s reserve driver, competes in the Japan-based 𒅌series and is racing at Motegi this weekend.
Lawson꧋ span on the exit of Turn 1 and 2 when trying to overtake teammate Tomoki Nไojiri.
Tadasuke Makino and Yuhi Sekiguchi then ♛collided scarily with Lawson’s car, and were sent airborne.
The race was red flagged.
Nojiri waཧs clꦯeared of any wrongdoing by the Stewards.
Remark♈ably Lawson, via🍃 the pits, was able to restart and finished the race in 13th, a major blow to his title hopes.

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