Despite Ferrari was the fastest car in the GAzerbaijan Prize, Victory went to McLaren Oscar Piastri. Once again the smartest in the class. Once again achieving an incredible overtaking. AND Charles Leclerc It is clear that they lost the victory for two reasons.
“Today we lost the victory because of two factors. The first was tire management on our out lap after the pit stop. We expected everyone to take a long time to warm up the hard tyres, but that wasn’t the case for McLaren, who put their tyres in the right running direction very early on and gained a lot of time,” explained the Monegasque driver, who was not at all happy with this second position.
The second, his fight against Piastri: “The second was not having fought more with Oscar when he passed meI knew we had a long race ahead of us, and my goal was to save the tires, stay in the DRS zone and overtake him later.
“Taking advantage of a configuration with lower aerodynamic support than ours allowed They were too fast for us to overtake them“Overall, it wasn’t the best day for our team, but we’ll go to Singapore even more determined,” said the Ferrari driver.
The Maranello team is in good shape. They were the fastest monza and they won and now in Baku they failed to achieve the double. But in this last part of the year (nine races remaining) they will have more opportunities if they maintain this great performance.
