The Red Bull junior driver was thrown into the AlphaTauri on Saturday morning at the F1 Dutch Graไnd Prix, after Dan🐻iel Ricciardo had injured a hand a day earlier.

Lawson finished the race in 13൩th, after getting a 10-second time penalty for impeding in the pitlane, in very challenging weather conditions.

“It was a little bit sketchy, conditions were all over the place🐲,” the New Zealander reacted.

♋“On the grid it started raining – not th💃e best feeling. 

“I was obviously learning a huge amount, the fir🅘st part was the best, we lost a bit of time 𝐆with the stacking and the penalty. 

“That’s all part of it obviously, the second half I starte𒅌d to get a bit of feeling on the softs and the clean air, and on the inters as well, I felt a lot more comfortable than yesterday, that’s for sure.”

He said about bringing his AlphaTauri, a car he’d never previously driven, home: “You always look back and I’ll reflect on this and there’s definitely things I🦄 would have liked to do better.

“But yeah, reasonably satisfied with that.”

Lawson’s mo💮st eye-catching moment was overtaking the Ferrari ofꦏ Charles Leclerc, although he lost the position back shortly after.

“Yeah, that was quitജe eventful toꦚ be fair,” he said. 

“I🐻 think he was struggling a lot on the softs and every time I passed him he passed me back on the straight, so a little bit frustrating but obviously it’s good to get experience. 

“I feel like I 🅷had experience of every situation in that race with multiple pit stops, 🌃wheel-to-wheel racing, dry, so it was a good learning experience.”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said about Lawson’s debut: “ Again, the poor guy ge✅tting dropped in a car he’s never driven, wet, dry conditions… 

🎃“I actually think he did pretty well. And he actually overtook Max on Max’s outlap as he changed onto the intermediate tires at the end there. 

“To finish a race like that iಌn itself with the lack of experience that he has, I thought in very difficult circumstances, he applied himself very well.”

Lawson is expected to be back for at least one more race, next weekend in Monza, and 🌺reports on Monday morning sugℱgest he could be needed for Singapore too as Ricciardo recovers.