Liam Lawson wants his Racing Bulls team to be able to hit the ground running on F1 weekends to repeat his Austria performance.
After a mixed return to the team following demotion from Red Bull, Lawson's best performance of the season came in round 11 in Austria, where he qualified and finished in sixth place.
This was on the unfancied one-stop strategy, with the New Zealander being the strongest of Red Bull's four drivers across the weekend, even out-qualifying Max Verstappen, something he did not achieve at Red Bull.
Racing Bulls, under new boss Alan Permane after Laurent Mekies' promotion to replace the sacked Christian Horner at Red Bull, finds itself seventh in the constructors' standings at the halfway stage on 36 points.
Just 22 points separate Stake in sixth from Alpine in 10th, with Stake rocketing up from ninth to sixth after Nico Hulkenberg's 15 points for third at Silverstone.
Given how close the performance is in the midfield, Lawson feels his team need to be able to deliver immediately on grand prix weekends from free practice 1.
"We will analyse everything and exactly why it all clicked together [in Austria], and basically try to take that into every weekend," Lawson told media when asked by RacingNews365 how he could build on his result at the Red Bull Ring.
"Every track is different, so that is one thing we have to do the same every weekend, which is to continue to develop, and with how close the margins are, there is no time to sit on what you have.
"If you have a good session, if you start FP1 in a really strong position, it will give you no guarantee for the weekend because everybody is chasing every session.
"At the same time, because the margins are so close, it is very important that the work you do before the weekend starts with a good platform and starts with the car in a good place.
"Then it is much easier to build from that, and if you start way off, it obviously makes it a lot more difficult to get the car in a good place."
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