Australian Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri has claimed second spot on the podium at the Italian Grand Prix behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
With his head bowed and with a sigh of resignation, Melbourne’s Formula 1 superstar Oscar Piastri admitted just how gutted he was to miss out on winning one of the two races he and his peers want to win most – the Italian GP at Monza.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri leads Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc into a bend during the Italian Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday.After the drama of the Hungaroring in late July, Piastri made sure team orders wouldn’t intervene this time as he chased his championship-contending teammate Norris off the grid into turn one.
“We did a lot of things right today – there were a lot of question marks on the strategy going into the race.“From the position we were in, with the tyres looking like they did, doing a one-stop seemed like a very risky call and in the end it was right. Norris crossed in third ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, and future Ferrari star and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes. A struggling Max Verstappen could only manage sixth, though he still maintains a strong points buffer in his hunt for a fourth-straight title.
Norris pitted on lap 14 to try and undercut Leclerc , and it worked for a time, but Ferrari had the last laugh – making sure the Monégasque star’s first and only stop was on lap 15.
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