F1: Oscar Piastri gave a chair and won the Saudi Arabia GP

The Australian showed his temperance, defeated Jeddah’s street and enhanced his actions to fight for the title. Max Verstappen was second and Charles Leclerc completed the podium. Lando Norris climbed to fourth place.

Impossible to perform an analysis of the triumph of Oscar Piastri in the Saudi Arabia GP, fifth date of the season, without placing the start of the race as one of the main points. The Australian stung very well from the second drawer and arrived with Max Verstappen, who had started from the pole with his Red Bull. The tetracampeón ran out of track in the first curve because he did not move well with his RB21 and had to cut outside. A while later, the sports commissioners decided to penalize with five seconds the pilot of the Energy Drink team, which purged in their first and unique stop in boxes, and McLaren’s arrived at the leadership. NowOnly there is the success of former Formula 3 champion and Formula 2? Not at all.

Piastri forced the error of Verstappen in the game and provided another sample of his temper, Because nothing less than tetra -champion was amilated. He challenged him and defeated him, beyond the posterior anger shown by the Dutch, totally disagree with the sanction he received. Once ahead, after Max fulfilled the penalty, he remained ahead and did not give him any alternative so that Red Bull was recovering, beyond that the RB21 is shown inferior to MCL39. But among Jeddah’s urban walls, the error is always latent, but Piastri did not fail.

The Australian also had to recover at a bad stop in boxes, because McLaren’s mechanics were locked the left rear tire and left Pastri behind Lewis Hamilton on his return to the track. And it happened immediately, in a maneuver for applause. Not anyone can boast of having defeated Verstappen and Hamilton in the same race and between the walls.

So, finding Pastri’s triumph to Verstappen’s sanction is to make a somewhat lazy and facilistic analysis. The Australian gave a chair in each race situation, he replied to the errors of the team and Max led him to the error.

The success on the fifth date left Piastri as the World Cup leader for the first time. Now, the problem will have McLaren. Because Lando Norris, his most spoiled pilot does not stop making mistakes, as happened in Jeddah when he crashed in the first round of Q3. The English recovered in the race and was tenth, but the sons -in -law do not stop joining the Lando list. That triumph that he achieved in Australia, which seemed to be the necessary cooking coup in his weak mentality, seems to have been centuries ago. Since then, Piastri won three of the next four races and reached the top of the World Cup. What will they do in Woking, will they prioritize someone? For now it seems early, but an internal struggle between its boys can feed the Verstappen chance, who, with a lower car, once again demonstrated that he will be attentive to anything he can take advantage of.

Piastri did not win only for the sanction and his triumph has a much larger value than that trophy that took. It remains imperturbable, firm and granitic, both in management and in mind. 19 races are missing to finish the World Cup, but at this point in the championship, the Australian clearly showed more potential than Norris.