Red Bull Racing's Liam Lawson completed 91 laps during a weather-affected day two of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Having split day one with teammate Max Verstappen, the 23-year-old New Zealander had the entire day behind the wheel of the RB21, helping him get to grips with the car and provide valuable data to the team.
Lawson's testing was disrupted slightly, however, with his morning session being cut short after a water pressure issue with his car's engine and poor weather conditions limiting him to just 28 laps.
Having finished P8 in the morning session, sitting 1.854 seconds behind Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton, Lawson ended the day P7 - bringing himself to 0.904 seconds behind Williams' Carlos Sainz, who finished just 0.031 seconds above Hamilton by the end of day two.
Getting 91 laps under his belt on day two, combined with his 58 from day one for a total of 149, will be vital to Lawson's preparations for the 2025 season, in which he will make his debut for Red Bull and enter the grid on a full-time basis for the first time after two brief auditions with Racing Bulls (then-named AlphaTauri and Visa Cash App RB) in 2023 and 2024.
With one final day of testing remaining, Lawson will hand over the reins to the four-time World Champion Verstappen, who will be hoping to get plenty of long runs in and utilise the team's new minor parts that are expected to be ready ahead of the opening race of the season in Australia.
Speaking to PlanetF1.com, Red Bull's technical director Pierre Waché spoke about the expected upgrades, saying: "I think we have some new parts coming for day three, but it is not massively different."
"For sure, everybody’s doing this, you have some small parts to evaluate."
He explained: "It was planned for race one, but we try to push it a little bit for day three here because it gives us a possibility to see whether the direction is correct or not, but it’s not magic."
