Oscar Piastri Admitted on Sunday that Max Verstappen’s Oversking Move in the opening Lap of the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix had impressed him. The Australian was surprised, and he did’s deny it.
“Yes, I was surprised,” Piastri Said afterwards. He saw the Dutchman overtake him on the outside in the first corner with a daring move and was too late to react. “For a moment, I thought I had Everything Under Control. You learn from that. Next time I’ll brake 10 meters later. That’s life. It was a nice move by max.”
“I am Disappointed,” The Championship Leader Added. “It’s never great when you start first and finish third.”
The Duel with Verstappen was “Not iDeal” Accordance to Piaastri, But It Didn’t Seem To Be Too Much of An Issue for The McLaren Driver. At that moment, he still assumed he had Enough Pace to Regain the Lead. “But we are keeping it as fast as we had expected. Red Bull was surprisingly good.”
‘Maybe reacted too quickly’
Then some panic struck the pit wall at McLaren, which Saw Charles Leclerc and George Russell Dive in Early because their medium tyres were giving up. Piastri also had Those Tyres on His Car. He told his team that a one-stop shoulder be very optimistic.
“People were there struggling on the mediums, me too. But maybe we reacted a little too quickly, because the raced turned out differently than we thought.” That Turned out to be the case, because Verstappen and also Piastri’s Teammate Lando Norris Just Kept Going.
In The MeanMe, The Championship Leader had to work his way to the front through a field of cars that had not yet stopped, losing a lot of time in the process. “After that, the timing of the virtual safety car and the real safety car was good for us either. You have bad days in a championship and this was one of them. So not bad to still finish third.”
Norris Thought Second Place was The Highest Achievable
That was one place behind norris, who recovered from a poor qualifying. “This was the Highest Achievable Today. We Didn’t Expect Red Bull To Be So Fast,” Norris Admitted. “So I’m happy with that second place. Max was too fast today.”
The complaints that norris had not disappeared in qualifying. “The Car Didn’t Feel Really Good Anywhere, It Wasn’t Great To Drive. You Sometimes Have That, And You Can Still Be Fast. But In The High-Speed Corners Like Here Here, We’ve Been Struggling All Season. That something We Need To Work To work” “
Norris was Therefore also looking at the step forward with the improved red bull. “It seems like they’ve legs working on some things. Then we pay the price because we’re not fast enough.”