Red Bull’s Technical Director, Pierre Wache, added some more background on Lawson’s run plan, while praising him for “responding well” and providing comments “very close” to Verstappen’s.
“Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t great, with some rain at the beginning of the day, so we decided to do a race simulation to get Liam up to speed with long runs and to check the car for general reliability across race distance,” said Wache.
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“In the afternoon, our aim was to understand the car with the C3 [tyre] compound and the set-up options and to also explore the set-up of the car in general.
“We had wanted to get a total insight into the car today, and understand its full direction, but it was also difficult to judge the performance of the car in these conditions and get a lot of the temperature on the tyres.
“But Liam responded well today and his feedback was very close to Max’s. We have good understandings to take into the final day of testing now, with Max at the wheel.”