F1 Monaco Grand Prix: Racing Bulls and Liam Lawson take aim at Lewis Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton and Liam Lawson face off at the Monaco Grand Prix — Photo: © IMAGO

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Racing Bulls and Liam Lawson take aim at seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton

Liam Lawson was not happy with Hamilton

Sam Cook Digital Journalist

Sports Journalist who has been covering motorsport since 2023

Saturday 24 May 2025 20:57

Lewis Hamilton was the subject of Liam Lawson and his Racing Bulls engineer's wrath during practice for the Monaco Grand Prix, following an unusual incident.

Hamilton appeared to back up Lawson heading into the final corner, braking right in front of the New Zealander, presumably to try and open up a gap to the car in front before he started his own flying lap.

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The incident happened during FP1 around the streets of Monaco, where a lot of drivers had been complaining about similar incidents from their rivals.

However, this particular impeding incident prompted a rather snide comment from Lawson's race engineer Ernesto Desiderio, who appeared to criticise Hamilton's general driving style during practice sessions.

"I nearly hit Hamilton, he like braked right before the last corner," Lawson said over team radio, to which his race engineer cheekily replied: "Yeah, usual Hamilton stuff, that's okay."

Impeding a huge problem in Monaco

While Hamilton and Lawson's near miss did not hamper either's practice time, another incident gave Aston Martin a huge headache.

Lance Stroll veered into the path of Charles Leclerc who was on a flying lap in FP1, causing the Monegasque driver to slam into the back of him. While Leclerc was able to change his front wing and carry on in the session, Stroll badly damaged his gearbox and rear suspension, and was ruled out of the rest of the session.

On top of this, Max Verstappen was seemingly left seething at rookie Gabriel Bortoleto, as those two drivers almost had a collision after the Brazilian had impeded the four-time champion.

While impeding is always a huge problem around the streets of Monaco, this year's event sees four rookies taking to the track, which has arguably exacerbated the number of incidents.

Even Lawson, who is not technically a rookie, has never competed in an F1 race weekend around the Monaco street circuit.

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