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[BMMR61]

Piastri is saying "It doesn't suit me anymore than him. I have just adapted better."

I didn't see Piastri say what you quoted. Doesn't sound very Oscar either.

Its written in the quote:

Having discarded the proposed differences between last year's McLaren compared to this year, Piastri highlighted the work his side of the garage and himself have done to put themselves in the position they are in.
"I think we've done a very good job, myself with my engineers on how we deal with that, how I deal with that for my driving, how we deal with that with the setup."
Does it suit him better? The Australian replies: "I think it's a stretch to say it suits me more, because I really don't think there's that much difference [with last year's car], but ultimately the team's going to make the fastest car they can, whatever that looks like and it's kind of up to us to deal with that."
"I think for me it's very similar to last year, some small tweaks but yeah I think it's just been down to hard work why the start of this year has looked a little bit stronger for myself than last year."

Is it me who can't read? You made a quote in quotation marks. I said I couldn't see that quote, oh well better go to Specsavers!

[AR3-GP]

I didn't see Piastri say what you quoted. Doesn't sound very Oscar either.

Its written in the quote:

Having discarded the proposed differences between last year's McLaren compared to this year, Piastri highlighted the work his side of the garage and himself have done to put themselves in the position they are in.
"I think we've done a very good job, myself with my engineers on how we deal with that, how I deal with that for my driving, how we deal with that with the setup."
Does it suit him better? The Australian replies: "I think it's a stretch to say it suits me more, because I really don't think there's that much difference [with last year's car], but ultimately the team's going to make the fastest car they can, whatever that looks like and it's kind of up to us to deal with that."
"I think for me it's very similar to last year, some small tweaks but yeah I think it's just been down to hard work why the start of this year has looked a little bit stronger for myself than last year."

Is it me who can't read? You made a quote in quotation marks. I said I couldn't see that quote, oh well better go to Specsavers!

I was paraphrasing. Sorry, I see that could have been confusing.

[BMMR61]

Its written in the quote:

Is it me who can't read? You made a quote in quotation marks. I said I couldn't see that quote, oh well better go to Specsavers!

I was paraphrasing. Sorry, I see that could have been confusing.

Context my dear fellow, context. The way you paraphrased it made Oscar sound like he was sticking it to Lando. He's quite discrete the way he talks, I'm sure he knows that antagonising his teammate with verbals has a number of negative outcomes. Lando is less discrete and some of his earlier complaints could be construed as saying - if the car didn't have these traits I'd have it over Oscar. There's a lot out there that fuels disgruntlement, like saying that McLaren drivers are underperforming and should have been 1-2 every weekend. Or that McLaren aren't managing what they have 2024 and 2025. Well you don't get everything perfect that's the way of it, especially when margins are small.
It seems the better the McLaren results are the more negativity comes out in media and social media. Turns me off a bit, I want to be celebrating McLaren's time at the top, it won't last forever.

[mwillems]

Any tyre based advantage is likely to be more visible in the race, so it remains to be seen.

Q has been tight for a while, plus, it's SQ1 after one practise, which is often a bit more Random in performance than a Q after 3 practise sessions. Think about Hamiltons previous sprint performance.

And of course, qualifying has been tight since Race 2... it's nothing to do with upgrades, this is how the cars have been since the beginning

What is a known is that we have to execute in every Q because we aren't so fast that overtaking is easy.

[mwillems]

I should caveat that by saying it's a sprint weekend. Mclaren had one practice session. Maybe they didn't dial in the car. It happened to them at the last sprint weekend...

Let's see tomorrow. I think this car should have been on sprint pole today regardless. Nothing to take away from Kimi, that was a brilliant lap, but Oscar did lose it all on the last corner there (where Lando actually gained on Kimi), so piecing everything together, Kimi's lap wouldn't have been enough to beat McLaren.

Well maybe the car is the reason that Oscar couldn't put his final corner together. Isn't that what was being argued just 2 days ago? That it was not the driver's fault and the car is difficult to drive?

Said the car looks to have characteristics where its outright pace can come at a cost — seemingly more so than others with he way Lando drives it — but I've always said it's the driver's responsibility to manage that, so suggesting otherwise is misquoting me. That said, I don’t think the car is showing that issue here. It looks like the car, the driver, or the setup — or a combination of all three — have adapted. Lando remains behind Piastri today, and mistakes are being made.

[De Wet]

Let's Go Boys... Get a 1/2.

[CjC]

Anything can happen in a wet race

[Mcl_G10]

High chance that oscar jumps kimi at the start and runs off unto the distance imo

[Darth-Piekus]

Good luck to both of our drivers and lets go score as many points as possible.

Sigh... Back in the 80s and 90s they used to race under any condition with all the danger that the old F1 had. Now with all that safety and the drivers are scared of a little rain. Makes me wonder considering it wont dry anytime soon when are they gonna complete that Sprint? Its a chore for the driver to sit and wait for hours.

It restarted and this time hopefully for good. Lets go do our best and get the maximum.

Oscar Piastri is evolving into a standing start beast.

[mwillems]

Yeah it was a tremendous start. Poor mistake from Max is going to going to give him a penalty. If we go to dry tyres it'll cost him.

[Mcl_G10]

Oscars going to overheat those inters quite soon I think.

[Slahinki]

Oscar has killed his tyres.

[Ben1980]

Norris loves a miami safety car

[Darth-Piekus]

Hahahaha. Lando is so lucky with these Miami safety cars. Still he did battle for that place when he reduced 3 seconds distance from Oscar to only 4 tenths so in my opinion he is worthy of 1st.

[Mcl_G10]

I knew oscar was going to kill the tyres sooner.
Say what you want about landos mentality but his tyre understanding and management is second to none.