Requested the way it felt to be at Marina Bay given the information that he would quickly be changing Ricciardo, Lawson responded: “Not good, actually. Singapore was positively not an satisfying weekend for me, simply because clearly all of us knew what was type of coming.
“On the identical time, Daniel has at all times been superb to me, in a number of methods once I drove final 12 months after which even this season. I’ve by no means felt in competitors with him or something like that, by no means made it really feel like that.
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“It wasn’t a pleasant feeling, however clearly this, for me, is… I get one shot at F1 and it’s come now and I’m clearly grateful for that chance, however I now must take it with each fingers. On the identical time, he’s mentioned the identical factor to me, and he mentioned, ‘You want to benefit from it’.”
With Ricciardo having to deal with questions on his future throughout the weekend, the Perth native had publicly appeared to deal with it properly and Lawson was quizzed on whether or not Ricciardo had been nearly as good in regards to the state of affairs on to him.