Ted Kravitz shares what he found ‘particularly impressive’ about Liam Lawson’s 2023 cameo

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Sky Sports reporter Ted Kravitz has shared what particularly impressed him about Liam Lawson’s AlphaTauri stint in 2023.

At the start of the last season, AlphaTauri lined up with Yuki Tsunoda and rookie Nyck de Vries.

Speaking on the Sky Sports F1 Podcast, Kravitz has explained why the team’s fourth driver that year really stood out.

Kravitz shares Lawson’s high point during 2023

Liam Lawson might consider himself quite unfortunate not to be driving in Formula 1 right now.

After being rushed into Daniel Ricciardo’s AlphaTauri in Zandvoort last year – in a similar fashion to Oliver Bearman in Jeddah – he impressed during one of the most difficult Grand Prix of the season.

The highlight of his five races with the team was out-qualifying Max Verstappen en route to scoring his only F1 points in Singapore.

However, the team decided that Daniel Ricciardo and Yuki Tsunoda were the pairing they wanted for 2024.

Neither driver is going particularly well at the moment which could be good news for the young Kiwi.

Ted Kravitz has shared what Liam Lawson did during the 2023 season that left him particularly impressed.

He’ll be hoping he did enough during his cameo to earn a spot on the grid next year.

He’s already shared whether he would leave the Red Bull group if it meant driving in F1 in 2025…

Lawson proved his point in F1 last season

Speaking about the moment when Lawson found out before his impressive outing at the Singapore Grand Prix that he wouldn’t be retained for 2024, Kravitz said: “That’s the right approach which you took which was, ‘Let’s try and change that decision, all I can do and that may be true, it might not.

‘It might be true for some amount of time and then it might change to be something else’, but that is the essence of Formula 1, these things change so quickly and all you can do is control everything that you can and that’s what you did Liam [Lawson] which I thought was particularly impressive in those following races.

“[You] controlled the controllable, performed at your maximum which you did and impressed everybody and know that like Ollie Bearman, you’re the next two names on the list really coming in.

“You’ve jumped maybe some others that might have thought they were next on the list and Lawson and Bearman we know are proven packages now.”

Kravitz’s impression of Lawson’s 2023 F1 campaign would have been shared by many within Red Bull.

He outperformed Tsunoda in Japan last year and drew praise from Helmut Marko at the time.

It wouldn’t be a complete surprise if he ended up replacing the 23-year-old one day…