Lawson is on a break after completing his first full season in Formula 1 which presented him with many challenges.
Lawson was demoted from Red Bull to junior team Racing Bulls after just two rounds of the 2025 championship.
Despite seven top 10 finishes during the season Lawson had to wait until the last round to have his seat confirmed for 2026.
There was plenty of praise for the 23-year-old during the season, most notably after his sixth-place finish in Austria and fifth in Azerbaijan.
His team-mate Isack Hadjar has been promoted to Red Bull for 2026, while Arvid Lindblad will join him at Racing Bulls.
Lawson now has another year to prove himself and Racing Bulls Team Principal Alan Permane is encouraged.
"I truly see genius in him," Permane told PlanetF1.
"I think it's up to all of us, him included, to try and understand, when everything is going well - and it often is - like during exceptional races in Austria, Budapest, and during qualifying and the race in Baku, what the secret is to this success.
"We have to try to reproduce that throughout the season."
Lawson said he was relieved to have secured a seat for next year and had learnt from his roller-coaster run.
"I think doing a first full season - you go in with a goal of how you think the year will go," he said.
"Obviously this year went a different way than what I thought and I've definitely learned to roll with that.
"Going into next year, I'll be in a much better position because of it."
F1 testing starts in Spain at the end of January with another two sessions in Bahrain in February. The opening round is in Australia in March.
2026 F1 calendar
6-8 March: Australia
13-15 March: China
27-29 March: Japan
10-12 April: Bahrain
17-19 April: Saudi Arabia
1-3 May: Miami
22-24 May: Canada
5-7 June: Monaco
12-14 June: Spain (Barcelona)
26-28 June: Austria
3-5 July: Great Britain
17-19 July: Belgium
24-26 July: Hungary
21-23 August: Netherlands
4-6 September: Italy
11-13 September: Spain (Madrid)
24-26 September: Azerbaijan
9-11 October: Singapore
23-25 October: United States (Austin)
30 October-1 November: Mexico
6-8 November: Brazil
19-21 November: Las Vegas
27-29 November: Qatar
4-6 December: Abu Dhabi
