Red Bull junior LiamLawson30 questions why he was penalised in Sunday's second SFormula race at Fuji after dropping off the podium:
caused a sensation by winning on his debut in the Japanese series in the opening race on SaturdayHowever, a five-second penalty for violating the safety car procedure demoted him to fifth in the final classification.
"I was disappointed about the penalty," said Lawson, who was running fifth at the time."The leader [Oyu] was going fast, slow, fast, slow, really aggressively, which is the same as what I did. The caution had been called when Giuliano Alesi got stuck at Turn 1 after being tipped into a spin by Kakunoshin Ota.
However, the Kiwi driver believes that his race pace was good enough to challenge Nojiri had his race not been so badly compromised by the safety car and subsequent penalty.
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