Oscar Piastri blamed a lack of rhythm at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix as168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris gained more ground in the title race.

Piastri could only finish third i▨n Monaco on Sunday, 3.6s behind McLaren teammate Norris, who won the race.

The result means there are just three points between Piastri and Norris﷽ at the top of the drivers’ championship🦩 heading into this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix.

Unlike in many rac🌳es this year, it was Piastri who was more uncomfortable behind the wheel of the♊ MCL39.

After qualifying, Piastri described his weekend up to that point as “messy” as he lost out to Norris and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc.

Reflecting on the🌱 race in the FIA press conference, Piastri said: “Pretty much ex🧸actly how I expected. I think there was a lot of action behind, so maybe that was a bit different.

“But from where I💝 was at, it panned out pretty much how I thought. It definitely made th🧔e pace of the race a bit higher, certainly compared to last year. So from the cockpit, it was a little bit more intense.

“We’re still 🤡not pushing flat out, but it just made certain points of the ra🐻ce a bit more tense.”

Piastri struggled with Monaco “rhythm”

Inඣ a bid to get ahead of Leclerc, McLaren stopped Pias🐻tri two laps earlier.

However, a slightly slow pit stop - and being too far behind the Ferrari driver in the first place - 𒀰meant he wasn’t able to move up the order.

Piastri blamed a lack of rhythm going in𓆏to qualifying.

“Everything felt okay, but you’r꧒e not really pushing it to꧋ the limit in the race,” Piastri added.

“I was pretty happy with it in qualifying. I think we got there eventually. It was more just struggling to get into a rhythm before qualifying. And around here, you pay th𒆙e price for not haviꦍng that clean run into quali.

“So♍ that’s where I think our weekend got awaไy from us a little bit. But the pace was still good, just trying to get everything out of it. Every single lap was tough yesterday. And today, we tried a few things to get higher than third, but it didn’t work.”