Lawson reveals brother's childhood note asking dad to spend more time with him like Liam

Liam Lawson has revealed that his younger brother once wrote a childhood card to their father asking: “If I like racing, will you spend more time with me like Liam?” — a line the Racing Bulls driver described as one he will never be able to repay.

Speaking on the High Performance podcast, the 24-year-old New Zealander opened up about the hidden emotional toll his racing ambitions placed on his family. His parents sold the family home to help fund his career, and the card — discovered only a year ago — laid bare what that commitment had cost his siblings in time and attention.

“I’ll never be able to repay the amount of sacrifice, and it’s not just about money,” Lawson said. “My parents found this card a year ago that my brother had written to my dad. My brother is two years younger than me. We found this card that he’d written when he was five or six years old. And the card was like, ‘Dear Dad, if I like racing, will you spend more time with me like Liam?’”

Lawson said his family gave up holidays and countless weekends together in pursuit of his career. “I have an amazing family,” he added.

Asked what he said to his brother upon seeing the card, Lawson kept it simple: “Just, ‘Sorry, man.’ He now looks at it and laughs and thinks it’s funny, but I just think back to every single weekend being away.”

Currently in his second full-time F1 season, Lawson sits 10th in the drivers’ championship with 28 points after seven rounds. His rookie Racing Bulls team-mate Arvid Lindblad is 13th with 13 points, leaving the team sixth in the constructors’ standings on 41 points — 16 behind Alpine in fifth and 20 clear of Haas in seventh.