A difficult weekend for McLaren racer Oscar Piastri on the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix has left the Australian scratching his head over the place his tempo went on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
As McLaren group mate Lando Norris was taking the plaudits for securing a second profession pole place, earlier than ending the Grand Prix inside two seconds of winner Max Verstappen, Piastri endured a tougher time of it in Barcelona.
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A pair of errors within the remaining phase of qualifying noticed Piastri begin a season-worst P9. And though he was in a position to get well to seventh within the race, forward of the Crimson Bull of Sergio Perez and inside three seconds of Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari, Piastri was left to mirror on a tough time of issues in Spain.
“A little bit of a tough weekend clearly,” he mentioned post-race.
“I feel P7 was wanting fairly lifelike going into the race, clearly acquired near Carlos on the finish, however simply didn’t fairly have the tempo this weekend on the whole, so want to know why that was the case. Clearly while you qualify that far again it makes life very robust, so simply want to know why it’s been so tough.”
