Lando Norris set the fastest time in the first training session in Barcelona, Oscar Piastri finished sixth and Zak Brown, CEO of McLaren Racing, said after the session that he was satisfied with this start to the Spanish weekend.
Zac Brown: “Not a bad start to the weekend. As usual, many teams brought technical innovations to Barcelona (McLaren is not one of them), but it looks like Mercedes has a fast car again, and I don’t think their excellent pace in Montreal was a one-off.
In general, four teams compete for high results, and as always, this weekend will depend a lot on coordinated and effective work. In general, the results of the first training more or less adequately reflect the balance of forces, besides, everyone knows the Barcelona circuit very well – this is a real European circuit. I believe it is this weekend that the picture we will see in the remaining stages of the season starts to take shape.
After the race in Montreal we analyzed everything in detail, trying to find out if our team could win the Canadian Grand Prix. And if the safety car had come on track at a different time, we probably would have called Lando for the first pit stop at a different time, although I’m not sure the outcome of the race would have been different for us. The decision had to be made very quickly, we only had a few seconds to do this, but the difference between the different tactics was very small, so it is difficult to say whether we could have won that race or not. But you should always try to improve the efficiency of communication and interaction between the drivers and the team, the efficiency of the strategists, and make pit stops clearer, because if you think that there is nothing to improve, it means that you are going to start have problems.
Andrea Stella has a very correct approach to managing the team, he concentrates on each specific weekend individually and does not think about the championship as a whole. If you look at the situation in the team championship, Mercedes is behind us, but not by much, and Ferrari is only 40 points ahead of us, so we must strive to fight for victory every weekend, and at the end of This season we will see what we can achieve.”
Source: F1 News
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