Liam Lawson has confessed thatꦑ his F1 Mexico City Grand Prix performance was “not ideal” for claiming the Red Bull drive.

Lawson is hotly rumoured to replace Ser🍰gio Perez as the team🌌mate of Max Verstappen in 2025.

But the young RB driver’s first two races since replacing Daniel Ricciardo hav💛e had plenty of incident.

A week a🐽fter annoying Fernando Alonso in Texas, Lawson came to blows with Perez and Franco Colapinto in Mexico.

Lawson qualified 12🦄th and finished 16th in Mexico - then batted away questions about a move tꦦo Red Bull.

“No, at this stage I don’t know anything further on my future,” he told Sky🌠 Sports.

“A race like today is not ideal for that.

“🧸I am focused on the next few races to recover, and score points for the team. We lost points to Haas today.

“After a weekend like this, I’m not 🃏thinking about that.”

Lawson’s most notable skirmish in Mexico was aw🅠kwardly with Perez, the driver whose F1 career he could feasibly end if he lands a promotion fr♔om RB into Red Bull.

Lawson did damage to Perez’s side🅺pod at Turn 4 on Lap 19, which drew criticism from the more experienced driver.

Pere༒z lambasted Lawson and not having𓆏 “the right attitude”.

But Lawson also clipped the Will♌iams of Colapinto.

“Honestly, I gave𝓀 him space at Turn 2,” Lawson explained.

“He carried more speed than I expected.

“I tried to get out of it, but just caught his rear wheel. It’📖s not really his fault, it’s just a clumsy incident.”

Ulꦯtimately Lawson was restricted to a result which won’t have immediately grabbed the head♚lines he dreamed of.

“ඣI think our pace was strong but we spent the whole race behind another car,” he said.

“We had a brief few laps in clean air, at the start, which we maximise🐻d by moving forwards.

“But unfortunately we couldn’t overtake. We had the pace to score pointꦇs, but the wrong track p🌺osition.”