The Red Bull junior driver was thrown into the AlphaTauri on Saturday morning at the F1 Dutch Grand Prix,⭕ afte♑r Daniel Ricciardo had injured a hand a day earlier.

Lawson finished the race in 13th, after getting a 10-second time penalty for impeding in the pitla♌ne, in very challenging weather conditions.

“It was a little b💛it sketchy, conditi♔ons were all over the place,” the New Zealander reacted.

﷽“On the grid it started raining – not the best feeling. 

“I was obviously ✤learning a huge amount, the first part was the best, we lost a bit of time with the stacking and the penalty. 

“💧That’s all part of it obviously, 🍷the second half I started to get a bit of feeling on the softs and the clean air, and on the inters as well, I felt a lot more comfortable than yesterday, that’s for sure.”

He said about 🎐bringing his AlphaTauri, a car he’d never previously driven, home: “You always look back and I’ll reflect on this and there’s definitely things I would have liked to do better.

“But yeah, reasonably satisfied with that.”

Lawson’s most eye-catching moment was overtaking the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc,💧 although he lost the position back shortly after.

“Yeah, that was qui෴te eventful to be fair,” he 🌊said. 

“I think he was struggling a lot꧂ on the softs and every time I passed him he passed me back on the straight, so a little bit frustrating but oꦍbviously it’s good to get experience. 

“I f⛄eel like I had experience of every situation in that race w🌱ith multiple pit stops, wheel-to-wheel racing, dry, so it was a good learning experience.”

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said about Lawson’s debut: “ꦍ Again, the poor guy getting dropped in a car he’s never driven, wet, dry conditions… 

“I actually think he did pretty well. And he actually overtook Max on Max’s outlap as he changed onto the intermediatꦉe tires at🐟 the end there. 

“To finish a race like that in itself with the lack of experience that he has, I thought in very difficult c🍒ircumstances, he applied himself very well.”

Lawson is expected to be back for at least one more race, next weekend in Monza, and reports on Monday morning sugg🐼est he c✤ould be needed for Singapore too as Ricciardo recovers.