McLaren made a “mistake” at the F1 Ausꩲtralian Grand Prix - but not in their big decision to swap their drivers around.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris finished on the podium after teammate Oscar Piastri🔥 was💎 asked to surrender his position.

Piastri, who finished fourth, reacted: “It was fine. Lando qualified in front and tried something different at the first stop, and was quicker than me in♏ the first stint.

“It looked lꦚike he could get in front of the Ferraris🦩, I was holding pace with them.

“Yeah, Lando wꦦas a bit quicker so it was completely fair. As a team, we made the right c🔯all.”

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won the Austral🧜i🏅an Grand Prix ahead of his teammate Charles Leclerc.

The McLarens were third and fourth, in a grand prix featuring DNFs for🐭 Max Verstappen and both Mercedes drivers.

But McLaren might have🎃 secured P2 if not for an error earlier in the race, Karun Chandhok noticed.

“I think they made a mistake,” the ✤Sky Sports pundit expl💜ained.

“They started third and fifth, on the clean side꧂. Both drivers got an okay getaway. They held their positions.

“On Lap 10, Norris was ahead of Leclerc. Oscar 💙was behind him. Further back was George Russell who had pitted ear🍸lier, and was coming fast with a fresh set of tyres.

“McLaren and Ferrari reacted to George coming. They didn’t want to lose po🍃sition.

“But they reacted with Os🦹car leading Lando for an ex🐈tra five laps.

“Those five laps meant that, with fresh tyres, Osc🎃ar and Leclerc jumped ahead of Lan𒀰do.

“In hindsight, if you say they could have pitted Lando and Leclerc on Lap🎃 10 instead of Oscar, actuallyဣ Oscar was still four seconds ahead of George.

“He could have pitted on Lap 11, still ahead of George. Lando could have still staye﷽d ahead of Leclerc.

“They could have won on both counts.

“They swapped their drivers on Lap 29 which was a fair♚ decision. They had allowed Oscar to undercut Lando.

“Oscar then made an error, he locked up the front on Lap 39, which took h🌱im out of the fight. He was 8-10 seconds behind.

“✨If you look at Lando’s pace throughout that grand prix, he was only 2-3s behind Leclerc.

“I do think if he pitted at the same time as Leclerc on L🐼ap 10, and Oscar pitted on Lap 11, I think [🌼Norris] could’ve hung onto second-place.”

Norris’ P3 is his 14th career podium - the most-ever for an F1 driver without a gran💃d prix victory.

Norris reacted: “I'm very happy and proud of the teamꦉ as P3 and P4 are a lot of points in the championship, so that's the first thing.

“We missed out on Charles, I think our pace was a little bit better. He u🐲ndercut us in the first stint so maybe a little bit of hope for second place.”