Helmut Marko won’t be impressed by what Liam Lawson keeps doing on the radio after poor results

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Liam Lawson is yet to know what his future in F1 looks like, and Helmut Marko won’t be pleased with a pattern that has been emerging from the New Zealander in recent race weekends.

Lawson was only able to secure a 15th-place grid slot for the Mexico City Grand Prix, whilst his mightily impressive teammate and fellow rookie, Isack Hadjar, found himself amongst the front-runners in Q3.

He has been rather hit and miss in the flying lap shootouts throughout his first full term in the category, with his highest grid slot being claimed in Baku, where he started third, and his lowest coming in the race prior to it, at Monza.

Whilst not every qualifying session will feature a driver’s best version of the single-lap pace, the pattern that has emerged with Lawson is tied to the continual excuses that he makes over the team radio, much to the dismay of his Racing Bulls race engineer.

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Helmut Marko won’t be pleased with Liam Lawson’s excuses after poor results during F1 race weekends

The 23-year-old has often voiced his frustrations after poor results during F1 race weekends, and they could be attributed to one of the reasons why Lawson was demoted from Red Bull after just two races at the beginning of his first full season.

However, the New Zealander clearly hasn’t taken the tip on board. After qualifying in Mexico, Lawson exclaimed, “Zero grip!”

The verdict was somewhat subdued compared to the outburst he had voiced a week earlier in Austin.

During the two qualifying sessions that took place over the course of the weekend, the Racing Bulls driver was furious over matters that he had deemed to be the cause of his undesired grid slots.

“Mate, what the f— was that?” he shouted to his race engineer after failing to set a legal lap time during qualifying for the United States Grand Prix Sprint race.

After being told that his lap time was deleted, the 23-year-old replied, “Oh, maybe where the car was sitting in the middle of the f—— road.”

He was subsequently warned by his engineer on the pit wall about the use of explicit language over the team radio.

Another instance came at the British Grand Prix in July, after he had failed to make it out of Q1.

He shook off his 16th-place grid slot with an excuse akin to his sentiments in Mexico, saying, “Honestly, I have no idea. I could have sworn I was… It was weird out of turn four. Like, I had absolutely no grip.”

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Liam Lawson’s radio antics could harm his chances of securing an F1 seat for next season

With it being understood that Marko is the man to have a large say in the development of young drivers within the Red Bull stable, he has previously voiced his frustrations with the way that their rookies have utilised the team radio in the past.

After Lawson’s teammate called himself an idiot at the Monaco Grand Prix in May, Marko criticised Hadjar for showing ‘a lack of intelligence’ in trying to come up with an excuse as to why he made contact with the barrier on the exit of turn one.

It was something that the Austrian advisor to Red Bull had told the young Frenchman to work on ahead of his promotion to F1 last year. Marko noted that Hadjar must keep his emotions in check if he is to succeed in the high-adrenaline job that is being an F1 driver.

All of these past excursions point towards Lawson’s stock within the Red Bull stable decreasing with every excuse that the New Zealander comes up with following a result that isn’t in his favour.

With Arvid Lindblad ready and waiting on the sidelines, his future at the Faenza-based racing outfit could prove to be in danger because of it.