Liam Lawson’s former DTM team-mate Nick Cassidy has supplied his views on the Racing Bulls driver’s demotion from Purple Bull, describing it as “harsh”.
Lawson was partnered by Cassidy – at the moment racing for Jaguar in Method E – within the controversial 2020 DTM season-finale, the place the latter changed Williams’ Alex Albon.
It has been a particularly troublesome begin to his first full F1 marketing campaign for Lawson, who was demoted to Racing Bulls after simply two races with Purple Bull alongside Max Verstappen.
His first race with the sister crew within the Japanese Grand Prix was not a lot better, having been comfortably adrift of team-mate Isack Hadjar.
Lawson was additionally five-tenths slower than Hadjar on the opening day of the Bahrain Grand Prix, additional growing the stress on the New Zealander.
Cassidy does consider that Lawson’s Purple Bull axe was merciless, however that the demotion can act as a stepping stone going forwards.
“Yeah, I believe it is a powerful scenario for him,” Cassidy instructed RacingNews365. “Finally, I believe he could be the primary to confess that he did not ship most likely what he is able to.
“And sure, perhaps [it was] harsh after two races. I believe he had a [tough] free apply [in China] going right into a dash. I believe they [Red Bull] have been experimenting loads with the automotive, perhaps not only for him, however for the larger good of the crew.
“Simply from the surface that is what it seems to be like, after which issues modified fairly rapidly for him. However in the end, he did not fairly do the enterprise in these two races, and he received caught in a reasonably harsh enterprise because of it.
“I believe he has a superb likelihood to get well now although, he is in a really aggressive automotive. The Racing Bulls automotive seems to be sturdy with Hadjar, so definitely he nonetheless has plenty of alternatives to show himself this yr.”
