Ka kīia e Christian Horner ka tautoko Red Bull i te kaitaraiwa Kiwi a Liam Lawson e oke ana

Monday, 24 March 2025

Kua whakamāoritia tēnei pūrongo e tētahi hinengaro rorohiko, ā, kua hihiratia e te kaiwhakamāori a Puna, a Joel Maxwell, nāna te pūrongo i whakapai hoki i mua i te whakaputa hei pūrongo reorua. Nā Straker me Microsoft te hinengaro rorohiko i whakawhanake.

This story, originally in English only, was translated into reo Māori by an AI tool then checked and edited by Stuff kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell before publication as a bilingual news story. The AI tool was developed by Straker and Microsoft.

Ka kīia e te kaiwhakahaere Formula One o Red Bull a Christian Horner ka tautoko mārika te tīma i te kaitaraiwa Liam Lawson e oke ana.

Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner says the team will do its best to support struggling Kiwi Liam Lawson.

I rēhitatia e Lawson tētahi whakaaturanga tuarua he kore whiwhinga i te kaupeka F1 hou, i tāna mutunga 16 i runga i te ara i mua i te whakarewatanga ki te 12 i te Pō Rātapu ki te Grand Prix Haina.

Lawson registered a second point-less showing on the new F1 season, finishing 16th on the track before being elevated to 12th in Sunday night’s Chinese Grand Prix.

Read this story in English here.

I oti i a Lawson ki te tūranga 14 i te tauwhaiwhai kōpere i Haina i te Hātarei, ā, i muri i tana whiwhinga i te 18, kātahi ka tūtuki i roto i ngā āhuatanga mākū i te whakatuwheratanga o te kaupeka i te Grand Prix Ahitereiria i Poipiripi, he nui te turituri i te haumaru o tōna tūru Red Bull – kāore rānei.

Lawson finished 14th in the sprint race in China on Saturday and after he also qualified 18th then crashed out in wet conditions at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, there is plenty of noise around how secure his Red Bull seat is – or isn’t.

I tata muri i te whakawhitinga o ngā motokā i te raina i Hangahai, ka huatau tētahi pūrongo mai i Autosport ka taea te whakakapi i a Lawson e te kaitaraiwa Racing Bulls a Yuki Tsunoda - i mua tonu i te Grand Prix Hapanihi - te tūnga panuku i te maramataka F1 i te Āperira 6.

Soon after the cars crossed the line in Shanghai, a report from Autosport suggested Lawson could be replaced by Racing Bulls driver Yuki Tsunoda - as early as before the Japanese Grand Prix - the next stop on the F1 calendar on April 6.

I roto i tana hui pāpāho i muri i te rēhi, he maha ngā pātai i pā ki a Horner mō te wā heke mai o Lawson.

In his post-race media conference, Horner was hit with multiple questions around Lawson’s future.

“Tērā tonu te kohuki i roto i te pātiki,” te kī a Horner. “Kātahi anō mātou ka mutu te rēhi i konei. Ka kawea atu e mātou ngā mōhiohio, ā, ka āta tirohia.

“There’s always going to be speculation in the paddock,” Horner said. “We’ve only just finished the race here. We’ll take away the info and have a good look at it.

'He tino kohuki ngā mea katoa i tēnei wā. E ai ki taku kōrero, kātahi anō ka oti i a mātou tēnei rēhi. Ka kawea atu e mātou ngā mōhiohio, ā, ka āta titiro atu.'

“Everything is purely speculative at the moment. As I said, we’ve just finished this race. We’re going to take away the info and have a good look at it.”

I whakaitia e Horner te hiranga o tētahi hui ki te kōrerorero ā Lawson mahi, ā, tērā pea ka whakakapia ia mō Tiapani.

Horner downplayed the importance of any meeting to discuss Lawson and potentially even replacing him for Japan.

“Kāore au e kōrero mō tētahi huringa, nā te mea ko tō upoko kōrero tuatahi tēnā,” tana kī.

“I’m not even going to comment on a change, because that’ll be your first headline,” he said.

'E rua noa iho ngā whakataetae ki roto mātou i tēnei whakataetae. He tīpako tā mātou e rua – he iti noa iho ā mātou mōhiohio. Ka haere mātou ki te titiro ki tērā, ka mahi tahi me Liam, ā, me te mahi i te mea pai e taea e mātou mōna.

“We’re two races into this championship. We have a sample of two – we have quite a bit of information. We’re going to go away and have a good look at it and work with Liam and do the best that we can for him.

'He nui rawa ngā mōhiohio, he pēhea tana urutau ki te taraiwa i te motokā, me ngā mea e whiwhi ana ia i te motokā. He aha tā mātou hei āwhina? Kei hea ōna take nui, he aha te take o te maiorooro?'

“There’s so much info, how he’s adapted to driving the car, and what he’s getting from the car. What can we do to help? Where are his major issues, what’s causing inconsistency?”

I muri i te whakatuwheratanga o te kaupeka i Grand Prix Ahitereiria i tērā mutunga wiki, ka kī te kaitohutohu Red Bull tautohetohe a Helmut Marko mō Lawson: “Me tuku mātou i a ia kia mātao ināianei me te mātaki i tōna whanaketanga i roto i ngā tauwhaiwhai e toru ki te rima e whai ake nei.”

After the season-opening Australian Grand Prix last weekend, controversial Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko said of Lawson: “We have to let him cool down a bit now and observe his development over the first three to five races.”

Engari i muri i tā te kaitaraiwa e 23 ōna tau rahua whiringa i Haina, ka kī a Marko: “Ehara tēnei i te mea i tūmanakohia e mātou.”

But after the 23-year-old’s qualifying failure in China, Marko said: “This is not what we expected.”

Kātahi ia ka kī he “tino mīharo” te āhua o Hadjar, hei tāpiri: “Kei te tata tahi te rā [Hadjar] me te kōruru [Lawson], ā, ka kite mātou he aha ka tūpono.”

He then noted that Hadjar’s form had been “absolutely fascinating,” adding: “The sun [Hadjar] and the shadow [Lawson] are close together and we'll see what happens.”

I taua ahiahi anō, ka whakakāngia e Tsunoda te kohuki o tētahi whakawhitinga kaitaraiwa mā te kī ka “100%” ka rite ia ki te taraiwa mō Red Bull i te Grand Prix panuku, i tōna kāinga tupu o Hapani.

The same evening, Tsunoda fuelled speculation of a driver swap by saying he would “100%” be ready to drive for Red Bull at the next Grand Prix, in his native Japan.

I whakarerekētia e Red Bull tētahi huringa tōmuri ki te whakatārewatanga a Lawson - nā tērā i whiu te tīmata mai i te ara whakarite - i roto i tētahi oke kia kitea ētahi whakapainga, engari i kī te kaitaraiwa Kiwi kāore i kite.

Red Bull made a late change to Lawson’s suspension set up - that incurred the penalty of starting from pit lane - in a bid to find some improvements but the Kiwi driver said it did not work.

“I ngana mātou ki te mahi i tētahi mea nui ki te whakaritenga, ko te nuinga o te wā ki te ako i tētahi mea, kia whiwhi ariā,” te kī a Lawson.

'We tried to do something aggressive with the set-up, mostly to learn something, to get an idea,“ Lawson said.

“I tino ako mātou i tētahi mea, engari kāore i whaihua i tēnei rā.”

'We definitely learned something but it just didn’t work today.'

Ahakoa ehara ngā hua i te mea e hiahiatia ana e Red Bull, ka kī a Horner ka kaha rātou ki te whakapai ake i muri i a Haina.

Despite the results not being what Red Bull wanted, Horner said they would work hard to improve after China.

“Ki tōku whakaaro he uaua rawa ngā whakataetae a Liam, he mutunga wiki uaua i konei,” te kī a Horner.

“I think Liam’s had a tough, tough couple of races, a tough weekend here,” Horner said.

'I kōwhiria e mātou kia tangohia ia i waho o te tukutuku, i waho o te parc fermé ki te mahi i tētahi huringa whakaritenga nui. Nā reira kua taea e mātou te tiki i ngā raraunga tika e 56 ngā huringa. Mai i tērā, e mārama ana ka kawea atu e mātou tēnā, ā, ka titiro atu mātou ki ērā. A, hei rōpū, ka mahi mātou i te pai ki te tautoko i a ia.'

“We elected to take him off the grid, out of parc fermé to do a significant setup change. And so we’ve managed to get 56 laps of reasonable data. From that, obviously we’ll take that away and we’ll have a good look at it. And as a group, we’ll do our best to support him.”