Red Bull held back by "a few teething gremlins" on Day 2 in Bahrain
Having completed his second and last day ahead of the upcoming season, Liam Lawson revealed that Red Bull has suffered a few teething gremlins on the second day of pre-season testing.
While Max Verstappen and his new team-mate Liam Lawson shared driving duties on the opening day of the three-day pre-season testing in Bahrain, only the Kiwi drove on the second day.
Lawson ended up in seventh, but his day was far from ideal as he lost some track time in the morning owing to a water systems issue with the RB21.
He commented: "I am getting more comfortable in the car, it has been a busy day overall. As part of testing, we were fighting a few teething gremlins with the car through the day, it’s all about just learning about the new car.
"A few of our runs were cut short a little bit and we had to deal with the weather too, which wasn’t great timings for our run plan, as I imagine was the case for most of the pitlane. All this work is extremely valuable going into Melbourne and we feel in a positive place.
"This is all the most important stuff when it comes to pre-season, this will be the last time I drive the car before Melbourne, to get things right and we are going to take from all of it, to put together the best-balanced car for the first race."
Speaking of Red Bull's second day at the Bahrain International Circuit, the Milton Keynes-based outfit's technical director Pierre Wache praised Liam Lawson for his feedback about the RB21.
"We decided to do a full day with Liam today, to continue to prepare him ahead of the season. Unfortunately, the weather wasn’t great, with some rain at the beginning of the day, so we decided to do a race simulation, to get Liam up to speed with long runs and to check the car for general reliability across race distance.
"In the afternoon, our aim was to understand the car with the C3 compound and the set up options and to also explore the set up of the car in general.
"We had wanted to get a total insight into the car today, and understand its full direction, but it was also difficult to judge the performance of the car in these conditions and get a lot of the temperature on the tyres. But Liam responded well today and his feedback was very close to Max’s. We have good understandings to take into the final day of Testing now, with Max at the wheel," concluded Wache.
