Oscar Piastri takes aim at Lance Stroll for ‘driving like it was his first go-kart race’

Oscar Piastri aimed a dig at Lance Stroll for costing him time in his purs♊uit of Charles Leclerc.

Lance Stroll
Lance Stroll

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri has taken a swipe at 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll for “driving like it was his first go-kart race” after being shown blue flags during the F1 Italian Grand Prix.

The McLaren driver was on a two-stop strategy and rapidly hunting down Charles Leclerc, who pulled off an ambitious one-stop, in a late battle for the win in Sunday’s grand pr⛦ix at Monza.

Piastri ultimately had to settle with second, falling just 2.6 seconds short of L🐬eclerc at the chequered flag, having lost crucial time overtaking Ferrari’🉐s Carlos Sainz and when getting past backmarkers including Aston Martin’s Stroll.

“I asked basically straightaway what pace I needed to 🌠do to go and get Charles,” Piastri told media including in the post-race press conference.

“The pace I needed was basically what I ♔did for the first few laps. At that point I was pretty optimistic. I lost a de🉐cent amount of time being Carlos.

“You had Stroll driving like it was his first go-kart race. I don’t know what went through his brai𒀰n when he saw 🧸his blue flag, but that cost another second.

“I needed that stint to be perfect to win that race and those little things cost us a bit of a chance. It would have been ▨a long shot anyway, but yeah, it was certainly not far off being able to achieve it.

“I was pushing flat-out and I couldn’t have gone any faster than that. Yup, j🍸ust came up a bit ♏short.”

Asked how seriously he had considered a one-stop strategy, Pi෴astri replied: “Clearly not as seriously as I needed to. I think for me it was a big risk to do that.

“The graining of the tyres has been a big topic all weekend. In practice, once you got graining, it was basical♈ly game over. Even in the first stint on the mediums it was pretty difficult.

“When we made the﷽ second stop for myself, my front left tyre was pretty heavily grained. I 🐽was going slower and slower. So it seemed like a sensible decision to pit again. I guess nobody really expected the graining to clear up on Charles.

“So yeaꦺh. In hindsight, clearly stopping once was the right thing to do. But from Lap 1 in the race, with all the information that we’d gathered through the weekend, it seemed incredibly risky.

“That’s kind 🍷of the blessing and the curse of leading the race, or being at the front full st💯op. The guys behind you can react to what you do, and for Charles, if he did a two stop, he would have locked in third, and if he did a one-stop and he fell off the cliff, he still would have finished third.

"Of course he pulled the one-stop off, and the Ferrari looked like the hero today.𝄹 Obviously it hurts at the moment, but in the moment, it was the ri🍌ght thing to do.” 

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