
Patience is a virtue, but who has got the time? Not Liam Lawson, who suffered another disastrous qualifying session in which he finished last while team-mate Max Verstappen extracted fourth out of the difficult-to-handle Red Bull.
Lawson knows this full well, being acutely aware of the chequered history of Red Bull's second seat. "With time it'll come, but I just don't have time," he said in the post-qualifying media scrum. When Autosport put Lawson's quote to Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko, the Austrian ominously said: "He's right.