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

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris finished on the podium♛ after teammate Oscar Pi♕astri was asked to surrender his position.

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

“It looked like he could get in front of the F꧟erraris, I was holding pace🌃 with them.

“Yeah, Lando was a biꦫt quicker so it was completely fair. As a team, we made ꧒the right call.”

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won the Austr꧒alian Grandꦆ Prix ahead of his teammate Charles Leclerc.

The McLarens were third and fourth, in a grand prix featuring DꦆNFs for Max V𒊎erstappen and both Mercedes drivers.

But McLaren mi⛄ght have secured P2 if not for an error earlier in the race, Karun Chandhok noticed.

“I thiꦆnk they ma𝓀de a mistake,” the Sky Sports pundit explained.

“They 💙started third and fifth, on the clean side. Both drivers got a🔜n 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 pitt✅ed earlier, and was coming fast with a fresh set of ty🌄res.

“McLaren and Ferrari react✱ed to George coming. They didn’t want to lose position.

“But they reacted with Oscar leading Lando for♉ an extra five laps.

“Those five laps meant that, with fresh tyres, Oscar and Lecle☂rc jumped ahead of Lando.

“In hindsight, if you say they could have pitted Lando and Leclerc on Lap 10 instead of Oscar, actually Oscar was stil🐟l four seconds ahead of George.

“He could have pitted oﷺn Lap 11, still 🌄ahead of George. Lando could have still stayed ahead of Leclerc.

“They could have won on both counts.

“They swapped their drivers on Lap 29 which was a fai꧑r decision. They had allowed Oscar to undercut Lando.

“Oscar then made an error, he locked up the front on Lap 39, w♕hich took him out of the fight. He was 8-10 seconds behind.

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

“I do think if he pitted at th🧔e same time 🌟as Leclerc on Lap 10, and Oscar pitted on Lap 11, I think [Norris] could’ve hung onto second-place.”

Norris’ P3 ꦯis his 14th career podium - the most-ever for an F1 driver without a grand prix victory.

Norris reacted: “I'm ver🎶y happy and proud of the team 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 p൲ace was a little bit better. He undercut us in the first stint so maybe a little bit of hope for second ﷺplace.”