Liam Lawson: riding the wave into Silverstone

He stays out. Drives on. Brings it home ninth, exactly where he started, for his fourth points finish in a row.

That single afternoon in Austria tells you almost everything about Lawson right now. Not a quick car flattering a driver, but a driver dragging a midfield package somewhere it has no right to be, in conditions that broke half the grid. And he is carrying that form straight into the biggest weekend of the run so far: Silverstone.

Lawson heads to the British Grand Prix 10th in the world championship on 30 points, one finish away from matching his entire 2025 haul with most of the season still ahead of him. Of the seven races he has finished, he has scored in six. Then there is the line that should stop any Kiwi in their tracks. No New Zealander has scored points in four consecutive Formula One races since Denny Hulme in 1973. Hulme, our only world champion.

Silverstone offers the chance to stretch it to five. It is a Sprint weekend too, with points on the table on Saturday as well as Sunday, so there is double the opportunity for a man in this kind of touch. And it carries a nice subplot, with rookie teammate Arvid Lindblad lining up for his first home race after Racing Bulls' third double-points finish in a row, a first in the team's history.

True to form, Lawson refuses to get carried away.

"It's been a very tough year and hard to string a series of good results together," he says. "But recently it has been good for us. We need to learn from what is working right now and take that forward. Nothing has changed other than some small things in the car, small things to me, which have helped me get more comfortable."

After years spent earning, then justifying his place in F1; Lawson is now proving he belongs