Liam Lawson has revealed he acquired a telling off from his father for flipping the fowl at F1 rival Sergio Perez on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
RB driver Lawson, then in simply his second race since changing Daniel Ricciardo, broken Perez’s Purple Bull in a conflict at Flip 4 through the current race.
Perez branded Lawson an “fool” over group radio and later claimed the New Zealander doesn’t have the best perspective for F1.
Lawson was seen giving a center finger gesture to Perez later within the race, one thing which didn’t impress Purple Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko, or Lawson’s mother and father.
“It’s not one thing I ought to have completed,” Lawson instructed TFN.
“It’s one thing I’ll study from however on the similar time we’re competing at a excessive degree and when you have got that a lot adrenaline, it’s loopy.
“If I believe again through the years to issues I’ve thought of or mentioned after a race, particularly after I was youthful, then you definitely settle down and also you realise how loopy that was and the way silly it was.
“It was one thing I learnt from however clearly if you end up in F1 the highlight is on you and possibly I didn’t realise how a lot folks can see. You’ve acquired to watch out.”
Requested what his mother and father product of it, Lawson admitted: “They weren’t impressed.
“[I’m] very lucky to have somebody like my dad who has performed a large position in, clearly, elevating me as a person, but in addition as a driver, rising up and attempting to be skilled within the sport.
“He’s stored me very grounded, I’d say, and that’s been one thing that he’s completed since I used to be a child. So, you understand, he wasn’t impressed with that and I utterly perceive why. And clearly, as I mentioned, it’s not one thing I ought to have completed, and I’ll study from [it].”
Lawson added: “My dad instructed me off, as my dad has completed many instances through the years.”
