Why Oscar Piastri wasn’t completely satisfied despite breakthrough F1 podium at Japanese GP
The McLaren driver starred at Suzuka as he qualified second to Red Bull’s168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Max Verstappen, before finishing third behind teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris in Sunday’s race.
While it marked the impressive F1 rookie’s maiden grand prix podium, Piast🐷ri 🍰admitted it wasn’t his best performance.
“It’s special wherever you get a podium. To get ไthe first one, I don’t think it really matters where, it’s always going to be special,” he said.
“You know, I think for myself, it probably wasn’t my stronges⛦t Sunday. So from that side of things, there’s still a few things I𒀰 want to work on. But no, to get the first podium, on pace as well is a very exciting moment.”
The 22-year-old Australian conceded he “jus🐠t wasn’t quick enough at certain points of the race” as he en🔥ded up losing out to Norris.
“These high-deg races are probably the biggest thing I need to try and work on at 𓆏the moment,” he explained.
“In all the junior racing before this there are no races like this. So the on♒ly way you can learn from it is by just doing the races.
“So there’s definitely꧃ a few t♏hings, had I had this race again, that I would have done a bit different.
“But that’s all part of the learning. It’s so exciting to know that we can finish on the podium, even if I f🦹eel like there’s more to come.”
Piastri, who has moved up to ninth place in the championship standings, added: “The tyre management and just pace at certain points of the race wa🍒s not as strong as I would have liked.
“In the first stint it felt like everyone was driving extremely 😼slowly and then when I tried to push a bit more the tyres didn’t really let meꦜ go much faster. So there’s a few things to work on there and just pace overall in the races.
“In these kinds of races ther♔e’s no easy way to learn apart from just going through the races and having an experience where it’s good or bad.
“The one-lap pace especially in last few weekends has been a good imꦅprovement from the start of the year but definitely, in these kinds of races, the race pace is still an area to improve.”
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