In Monaco, Oscar Piastri climbed to the second step of the podium and believes McLaren can now battle with the leaders every weekend…
Question: Oscar, congratulations on your third podium in Formula 1. How are you feeling?
Oscar Piastri: I’m happy. It’s especially nice that I earned it in Monaco. If there’s one podium you dream of reaching outside your home circuit, it’s here in Monaco. I am very happy for the whole team. It’s nice to get a good result.
Q: Speaking of your fight with Charles, was there a moment where you tried to get ahead of him?
Oscar Piastri: I tried it around lap 10 or 15, in turn 8. We were going quite slowly. I think at one point we were driving slower than Formula 2.
When you’re driving this slowly, you have a few options. But I knew that as soon as I showed where I was going to overtake, he would speed up. I was able to get very close in Turn 7 and overtook him in Turn 8, but he reacted quickly and I realized there was no chance.
Question: How did the car perform? Did you damage your bottom a little when you collided with Carlos at the start?
Oscar Piastri: Everything was okay. What this led to was impossible to say in the first half of the race. It might have had some effect towards the end, but overall I’m happy with everything.
Question: What does this weekend say about McLaren’s competitiveness? Can you now participate in the battle regularly?
Oscar Piastri: I think so. The last three races took place on completely different circuits and we were competitive everywhere. Miami was probably one of our worst tracks before this year. Imola has always been kind to us, but we had a very strong weekend there, and here…
Let’s just say our car has never been strong in slow corners, but here we were fast. I think we can be confident in our abilities at any track. We don’t have to rely on the fast lanes like last year to get results, which is encouraging.
Before qualifying we thought that pole position could be won by a driver from one of the four strongest teams, which hasn’t happened for a long time. So I think we can fight with the leaders every weekend.
Source: F1 News
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