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5最新开奖结果: Max Verstappen, before finishing third behind teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris in Sunday’s race.
While it marked the impressive F1 rookie’s maiden grand 𒁃prix podium, Piastri admitted it wasn’t his 🍎best performance.
“It’s special wherever you get a podium. To get the first one, I don’t thin💯k it really matters where, it’s always going to be special,” he sa♌id.
“You know, I think fo𝓡r myself, it probably wasn’t my strongest Sunday. So from that side of things, there’s still a few things I 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 “just wasn’t quick enough at certain points of the race” aꦦs🐠 he ended up losing out to Norris.
“These high-deg races are p▨robably the biggest thing I need to try and work on༺ at the moment,” he explained.
“In all the junior racing before this there are no races like this. So the o🎀nly way you can learn from it is b💞y just doing the races.
“So there’s definitel😼y a few things, had I had this race again, that I would have done a bi🎐t 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 feel 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 poiღnts of the race was not a﷽s strong as I would have liked.
“In the firstꩵ stint it felt like everyone was driving extremely slowl✤y and then when I tried to push a bit more the tyres didn’t really let me go much faster. So there’s a few things to work on there and just pace overall in the races.
“In these k🙈inds of races there’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 improvement from the start of the year but definitely, in these kinds of races, the race pace is s𒀰till an area to improve.”
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