McLaren made a “mistake” at the F1 Australian Gra🉐nd Prix - but not in the𝓰ir big decision to swap their drivers around.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris finished on the podium after teammate Oscar Piastri was ask♉ed to surrender🐷 his position.

Piastri, who finished fourth, reacted: “It🎉 was fine. Lando qualified in front and ♐tried something different at the first stop, and was quicker than me in the first stint.

“It looked like he could get in front ✤of the Ferraris, I was holding pace with them.

“Yeah, Lando was a bit quicker so it was completely fair. As a tea൩m, we made the right ca𒈔ll.”

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix ahead of his teamꦫmate Charles Leclerc.

The McLarens were thir෴d and fourth, in a grand prix featuring DNFs for Max Verstappen and both Mercedes drivers.

But McLaren might have secured P🦩2 if not for an error earlier in the race, Karun Chandhok noticed.

“I think they made a ⛦mistake,” the Sky Sports pu🌌ndit explained.

“They started third and fifth, on the clean side. Both drivers got a𝓰n okay getaway.💝 They held their positions.

“On L⛄ap 10, Norris was ahead of Leclerc. Oscar was behind him. Further back was George Russell who had pitted earlier, and w﷽as coming fast with a fresh set of tyres.

“McLaren and Ferrari reacted tℱo George ꦛcoming. They didn’t want to lose position.

“But they reacted with Oscar le💎ading Lando for an extra five laps.

“Those five laps meant that, with fresh tyres, Oscar and Leclerc ju💙mped ahead of Lando.

“In hindsight, if you say they could have pitted Lando and Leclerc on Lap 10 instead of Oscar, actually Oscar was still four seconds ahead of 🐎George.

“He cou💃ld have pitted on Lap 1🍸1, still ahead of George. Lando could have still stayed ahead of Leclerc.

“They could have won on both counts.

“They swapped their drivers on Lap 29 which was a fair decisio🃏n. They had allowed Oscar to undercut Lando.

“Oscar then made an error, he locked up the front on Lap 39, which to💎ok him out of the fight. He was 8-10 seconds behind.

“If you look a🎐t 🧸Lando’s pace throughout that grand prix, he was only 2-3s behind Leclerc.

“I do think if he pitted at the same time as Leclerc on Lap 10, and Oscar pitted on Lap 11, I think [Nor♔ris] could’ve hung onto second-plac🌳e.”

Norris’ P3 is his 14th career podium - the most-ever for an F1 driver without a grand prix victor🔜y.

Norris reacted: “I'm very happy and proud of the team as P3 and P4 are a lot of points in the champio꧅nship, so𝕴 that's the first thing.

“We missed out on Charles, I thin✅k our pace was a little bit better. He undercut us in the first stint so maybe a littl🦩e bit of hope for second place.”