Liam Lawson has confessed that his F1 Mexico City Grand Prix performance was “not ideal” for claiming the𝐆 Red Bull drive.

Lawson is hotly rumoured to replace Sergio Perez as the teammate of Max Verstappen i🎉n 2025.

But the young RB driver’s first two races since replacing Daniel Ricciardo have had✱ plenty of incident.

A week after annoying Fernando Alonso in Texas, Lawson came t๊o blows with Perez and Franco Colapinto in Mexico.

Lawson qualified 12th and finished 16th in M🐭exico - then batted away questions about a move to Red Bull.

“No, at this stage I don’t know anything further on my fut🎶ure,” he told Sky Sports.

“A race like today is not ideal for that.

“I am focused on the next few races to recover, and score points﷽ for the team. We lost points to Haas today.

“After a weekend 🐎like this, I’m not thinking about that.”

Lawson’s most notable skirmish in Mexico was awkwardly with Perez, the driver whose F1 career he could feasibly end if he lands a promotion from RB 🅺into Red Bull.

Lawson did damage to Perez’s sidepod at Turn 4 on Lap ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ19, which drew criticism from the more experienced driver.

P🌜erez lambasted Lawson and not having “the right attitude”.

But Lawson🍨 also clipped the Williams of Colapinto.

“Honestly, I gave ♊him space 𝓰at Turn 2,” Lawson explained.

“He carried more speed than I expected.

“I tried to get out𝕴 💫of it, but just caught his rear wheel. It’s not really his fault, it’s just a clumsy incident.”

Ultimately Lawson was restricted to a result which won’t have immediately grabbed the headlines he dr♚eamed of.

“I think our pace was 🌃strong ♛but we spent the whole race behind another car,” he said.

“We had a brief few laps in clean 🅘air, at the start, which we maximised by moving forwards.

“But unfortunately we couldn’t overtake. We had the pace to score point✃s, but the wrong track position.”