168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson has revealed he knew he would be replacing168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Daniel Ricciardo at the RB F1 team for around “two weeks”.

It was expected that Ri🐼cciardo would be dropped after the Singapore Grand Prix, but the swap was not officially confirmed until Thursday when RB announced Lawson would 🌠come in for the final six races of the 2024 season.

Speaking to in his first interview since his return to F1 was confirmed, th🧜e 22-year-old said he had a fortnight to prepare himse♎lf.

“Obviously I knew about it for the last sort of two weeks,” Law🍒son said.

“But until it’s out there to the world it obviously doesn’t really feel ♍set and it’s not like I could tell anybody.”

L🔴awson ad𒁃ded: “It had been the plan for a long time now, this was sort of where it was leading at least.

“Obviously I had a contract date that ne🥃eded to be𒀰 sort of fulfilled.

🔥“So b🅷asically it was always going towards this way and then a couple of weeks ago they told me this was what was going to happen and not long after that it was set in stone.”

Asked how it felt being in the RB garage in Singapore knowing that he would be taking Riccia𒁏rdo’s seat, the New Zealander replied: “Not good, honest♐ly.

“Sin💎gapore was definitely not an enjoyable weekend for me, just because obviously we all knew what was coming. And Da🐻niel has always been very good to me in a lot of ways.

“When I drove last year and even this season, I’ve never felt in competition with him or anything like🎃 that, he never made it feel like that. So it wasn’t a nice feeling.

“But obviously for me, I get one shot at F1 and it’s come now, and I’m obviously grateful for that opportunity but I now need to ♓take it with both hands.”

Lawson revealed that Ricciardo handled his looming sacking very gracious💯ly.

“He said the same thing to me and he said ‘you need to make the⛎ most of it’. He did a very good job on the weekend,” he added.

“Honestly, I have a huge amount o𒁏f respect for how he dealt with everything because I can’t really imagine what that [felt like].

“It’s a similar position to what I was in last year but obviously the guy is just a lot m♒ore public, a lot more famous than I am, so he’s getting a lot of questions and trying to sidestep those. He did a very good job.”

Lawson took♑ part in 🔯an F1 test over the summer when he drove a 2022 AlphaTauri at Monza.

At the time, the outing fuelled speculation that Red B൩ull were preparing Lawson to be drafte♏d in amid uncertainty over Sergio Perez’s future.

Lawson confirmed that꧅ his F1 drive was not set in stone regardless of how the tests went.

“It was all evaluation days and they we🌠re designed to put lots of pressure on me,” he e🥃xplained.

“It was fo✃r an event like this, to throw me in - a bit like last year -꧃ mid-season.

“They needed to know that I wo🍎uld somewhat perform. They were definitely eval🍌uation days.”