Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on Liam Lawson placing 17th in Japanese Grand Prix

A pit strategy gamble has failed to pay off on Liam Lawson’s return to Racing Bulls.

He has come 17th in Formula One’s Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

Lawson was eighth at the time of his only pit stop, but the decision to change to soft tyres with 19 laps to go didn’t yield the projected return.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pines here was sport. Hey Jason, Hello there, Ryan,
how are you very good? Thank you? Now? Did yesterday's
Japan movements improve or drop Liam Lawson's if one stocks?
Do we think?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Really good question? Yeah? I'm not sure. It certainly didn't
improve them. I don't think he came out with an
enhanced reputation. He started what thirteenth on the grid came seventeenth,
although there was a strange decision to change to tires
with nineteen laps to go, which didn't get the result
they were after, but he wasn't able to finish ahead
of Yuki Sonoda. Sonoda himself though, of course in the

(00:33):
Red Bull car wasn't able to get it to the
points either, and that's what one of the rationales for
dropping Lawson was. You got to finish in the top ten,
they said, otherwise you're not picking up points. Otherwise we
can't win the constructors championship. So look, Liam Lawson, he'll
go to bah Rain, a place where as I understand it,
there are more opportunities to pass. So hopefully with this

(00:54):
one under his belt and the Racing Bulls car, he'll
do just that and start to show some improve over
the next few events.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, I hope so too. Hey, I'm one of pacifica
becoming a bit of a super rugby force.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
How good are they going? I guess the Warrortales On
the weekend, I was doing the radio show in the
afternoon halftime. When I left at three o'clock, they were
twenty one seven down. I checked back an hour later
they won at forty five twenty eight. Incredible stuff from them.
Off the back of beating the Crusaders and a couple
of weeks before that beating the Hurricanes, they're on fifteen points,
two outside the top six. They go to Eden Park

(01:28):
on Saturday afternoon to take on the Blues. I'll tell
you what, Ryan, I reckon. There might be more cheering
for more one a Pacificer at Eden Park on Saturday
than there are for the Blues because they're playing a
pretty exciting brand of rugby at the moment.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
I think you might be right. Hey, I thought of
you when I saw it, not because I think you're
an aggressive person, but because I know you're into your football.
But watching the Auckland FC and the fans going at
each other throwing cans of beer, and this year there's
kids in the stand Pliny.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It was a shame, wasn't it. Yeah, just as always
a small minority ruining it and getting the and getting
the X. Look. I don't think it's indicative of what
happens at Auckland FC games. Just yeah, just a couple
of morons on the weekend. Other than that, eighteen five
hundred people who were there to enjoy the football. Another
great game and Auckland f C another undefeated game, but

(02:15):
they're stumbling a little bit towards the finish line.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
Piney, thanks for your time. That is Jason pine Sports
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