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Quotes: “When you’re in a good rhythm and you find things that are working for you, it’s obviously a good feeling,” he said to F1.
“And getting in a routine of doing that has been something that, especially during the European part, we’ve had less travel and spent a bit more time at home.
“It’s been a good opportunity to just focus a little bit more on myself as a driver and as an athlete, so I’ve just tried to do that.
“Also on the development side of the team, making sure that we’re prepared each weekend – not just having more meetings, but having effective meetings and discussions about what we’re trying to achieve. I think that’s been working very well.”

Quotes: “Naturally, the more experience you have, it’s going to be like that. Obviously the results have been better this year and so that’s going to make you feel in a good place,” he said.
“It’s development we’re doing behind the scenes. It’s obviously on a personal level, having more experience, understanding that a race is long and not won in the first corner.
“I think there are a lot of things that contribute to that.”

“The car was difficult at the start of the year so I definitely wasn’t confident about how the year would go, but just very focused on trying to make sure I had a good understanding of the new regulations and how to extract everything out of them,” he said.
“And then we very quickly found a lot of performance out of the car, and that’s been really working.”

“I think it was probably more of a surprise in the initial findings and when we started really finding performance out of the car, but since then, honestly, it’s not really a surprise,” he said.
“It’s not an expectation but it’s something that we know we can achieve – we’ve done it many times this year, and we want to keep repeating that.”

“We had some really good races – Monaco was very, very strong, Austria was great, Silverstone was great, but they were all honestly quite similar in the way that we built up through the weekend, and I really feel like we extracted everything out of the car each time,” he said.
“And then we had very clean races, so the standout ones are probably the ones that didn’t go so well, which is more of a good thing to have less of those, like we’ve had.
“But they’re the ones that obviously we need to learn the most from.”

In the latest instalment of F1 TV's Off The Grid, Racing Bulls' Liam Lawson gives us a look at his life away from the track.

Excerpt: “Wow, that was pretty tough,” Lawson told his race engineer Alexandre Iliopoulos after the race.

“Really good job, very good call on the strategy as well. [You] had me doubting it in the car, but very, very good job.
“Thank you, that was so good.”

Claiming eighth sees Lawson bank another four points in his season tally, and rises to ninth in the drivers championship as a result to enter the summer break as the “best of the rest”, the highest-placed driver outside of the top four teams.

Quotes: “I’m disappointed with my execution in Q2,” Lawson said post-qualifying. “I locked up in the first lap, and didn’t have a strong second lap.
“It’s a shame, the car has been very good. Our long runs have been quick, so we should have a fast car for the race.
“Points are definitely within reach, so it’s all to play for.”

Excerpt: "It's obviously good to have the full package this weekend, but it doesn't solve all the answers." Lawson told media on the eve of the Hungary Grand Prix.
"It definitely wasn't the full gap that we were missing last week, so I can't sit here and be like it's just gonna be perfect now.
"We've obviously looked over a lot of things and I'll try and do a better job this weekend as well. Hopefully it's strong enough."
Lawson sits tenth in the drivers' standings with 39 points, just three points behind Pierre Gasly of Alpine.
While his golden run did end at Spa, he remains confident of what they can do.
"Obviously we'd love to turn that around and have another good weekend as we had leading up to Spa, I think the team's in a great place."

Excerpt: “Every single wheel-to-wheel combat I had today, I lost down the straights,” Lawson told his race engineer Alexandre Iliopoulos after the chequered flag.
“I don’t know what else I was meant to do.”
Lawson had been as high as sixth earlier in the race, but couldn’t hold on as the likes of Red Bull’s Isack Hadjar and McLaren’s Lando Norris – who started 21st and 13th respectively – made their way from outside the top 10 to the points.