McLaren team principal Andrea Stella is unsure if 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris could have passed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen to win the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

Red Bull’s Verstappen appeared to be cruising to victory until he struggled with tyres in the final stint, with Norris, who won last time out in Miami, turn🍸ing in a late charge to challenge for vicꩵtory.

Norris got within a second of Verstappen on the final lap but fell just short of mounting an overtake on the reigning world cꦡhampion, prompting suggestions he only needed another lap or two to pull off an overtake.

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But St🤡ella does not think Norris overhauling Verstap♑pen would have been as easy as some people made out.

"Well, 63 laps is already many laps,"ꦚ Stella told Sky Sports F1. "Many times you say you would like one lap more.

"It is what it is and also 𒊎it is Max Verstappen, I am sure he was a bit in trouble but he managed to get the most out of what he had, so well done Max and well done🥂 to our two drivers, second and fourth.”

Stella acknowledged that losing too muc💟h time in the first stint behind Verstappen ultimately cost McLaren, but praised Norris for becoming “a bit of a master” when it comes to tyre management.

"We actually lost too much time in the first stint behind Max, but we had too much rear degradation and we thought actually today was about watching the mi🎶rrors [more] than watching ahead of us," he sai꧂d.

"After a period on the hard tyres in which we saved the tyres, while Leclerc and Oscar [Piastri] were fighting each 🐭other, I think this initial investment pa🌺id dividends towards the end of the race for Lando.

"Managing the budget of the t⭕yres was an important factor and we have to say fr🐓om this point of view Lando has become a bit of a master.

"Oscar paid for some issues we had yesterday in qualifying, otherwise he would’ve been on the podium as well. W𓄧e take this posi꧑tive and we look forward with some optimism now."