F1: Australian Oscar Piastri has burnt his own teammate to secure second place in the Sprint Race in Austria.
Saturday started with a brief but blockbuster battle between Max Verstappen , Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri for victory in the sprint race . Red Bull Racing and McLaren had been split by practically nothing in sprint qualifying , and their respective performances in race trim appeared to promise that the rest of the weekend would be similarly closely fought.
Pérez lamented that he’d run out of fresh soft tyres for Q3, and while that’s true, it’s only because he needed to burn through his sets just to make it to the top-10 shootout to begin with, again contrasting him poorly with his teammate. But all the same Piastri was pinged for running wide exiting turn 6 on the run to turn 7. Replays showed it was extremely marginal at best, but the time was wiped without discussion, dropping him to seventh.“It’s embarrassing,” he told Sky Sports. “We do all this work for track limits, put gravel in in places, and I didn’t even go off the track; I stayed on the track.
“Obviously being the only one that’s had that happen to me, I’m probably more vocal about it right now, but I think it’s embarrassing that you see us pushing right to the limit of what we can do, and if I’m on centimetre more, I’m in the gravel and completely ruin my lap anyway, and it gets deleted.”
Without the in-form Aussie in the fight, the bid for victory against a rejuvenated Verstappen will be that much harder.Earlier on Saturday we got a taste of the battle that could be on the cards on Sunday, but Norris will be hoping he can change the flavour. “I knew there were not going to be too many opportunities to try to , so I had to go for a bit of a move into turn 3,” Norris said. “And then I was just pretty stupid into turn 4.“We’re saying every weekend now, so I’m not going to say it again, but I should have done .
It demonstrates — yet again, as if it needed to be underlined — that to defeat Verstappen, a driver must operate at a consistently very high level. Norris is still fractionally below it. Now Max has weighed in on the issue, which is threatening to engulf the team once more after the explosive first few rounds of the season.
But while this latest spat appears to have been caused by an apparent crossing of wires, the repercussions are that Max has had to become involved again, and his comments have made clear that he buys his father’s version of events.
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