Oscar Piastri usurped McLaren team-mate Lando Norris as favourite with British bookmakers for the 2025 Formula 1 drivers title after winning Sundays Bahrain GP; watch every session of the Saudi Arabian GP on Sky Sports F1 this weekend, with coverage starting on Friday
  • Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    When lando was quicker last year, we never made excuses like the car better suited lando or similar shit. The popular consensus was that piastri’s inexperience was resulting in worse tyre wear and pace. Piastri has worked on these issues and is now just as quick while being consistent. Why is it that people are making excuses like the car suits piastri better instead of just admitting that piastri has made a big jump.

    • BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comOP
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      9 days ago

      I was just paraphrasing Andrea Stella. From the article:

      McLaren team principal Andrea Stella made a notable admission after the race in Bahrain as he appeared to suggest their 2025 car was more favourable to Piastri’s driving style than Norris’.

      Stella said: “We know that we have made some changes to the car, which made Lando’s life a bit more difficult. We know technically what this is; Lando is adapting to this, potentially this might have played a bit more on Oscar’s hand and we are working together to fix it.”