In desperation, Piastri convinced the team that the only chance they had was to stop earlier and give themselves more time to chase down the Red Bull. Piastri came in on lap 42, with 15 laps to the en...
There are few strategy options as well, because of a unique aspect of this race. Lusail’s plethora of long-duration, medium- and high-speed corners place heavy demands on the tyres, and the shar...
Oscar Piastri cut McLaren team-mate Lando Norris’ championship lead by two points with victory in the sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix. The Australian led an uneventful race from start to fin...
Piastri’s pole came despite a major oversteer moment on the entry to Turn Four, which he estimated had cost him about 0.2secs and he described as “pretty scary – turning left in a ri...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri outpaces title rival and team-mate Lando Norris in practice at the Qatar Grand Prix. Source link...
At the same time, Verstappen has mounted an impressive fightback from being 104 points off the lead after the Dutch Grand Prix, the race before Italy. Norris said: “How I am now feels the same a...
“It was clear from the data that the level of unexpected porpoising would be a concern,” Stella said. “We realised relatively soon that this level of porpoising was causing a high le...
A small group of senior figures at McLaren discuss with the drivers how they are going to approach their racing. They review what happened after each grand prix, and apply the lessons for the followin...
McLaren’s predicament is not an uncommon situation in F1. Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari was disqualified from the Chinese Grand Prix at the start of the season for the same reason, as well as t...
Had the result stood as the cars finished the race, Norris would have had a 30-point lead over Piastri and 42 over Verstappen. At the start, Norris was true to his claim that he was “not here no...