McLaren was clear with Oscar Piastri when he attacked Lando Norris

The Australian pilot marched third in Japan, just behind his English partner and sent a radio message to try to change positions.

The contest did not face couples forces. McLaren’s complete Navy, the team with the fastest cars of the moment in Formula 1, against a single Red Bull, with its RB21 that several headaches brings to engineers. In a corner, Lando Norris from the second starting drawer and Oscar Piastri, in the third. On the other, Max Verstappen. Of course, having the Dutch is a gigantic plus, but having two cars against one can allow more risks, betting on different strategies and bringing success. Of course, there you have to sacrifice someone and in McLaren it seems that, at least for now, that is not an acceptable plan.Odo your group of engineers and mechanics of Red Bull to be able to win that difficult RB21. But finally they did after a little promising start on the day of training.

The two mcl39 came out with the same tire compound and bet on a single stop. All traced. Thus, if the chance of overcoming Verstappen was given on the pique, it would be complicated. Well, Max started barbaric and goodbye. Everything, finally, was defined in the magical classification turn that the tetracampeón closed on Saturday.

On the side of the Woking team there are two very good pilots and with the same goal: the title. Neither of them will want to give in and accept to be the bow mask in a risky strategy. The problem is that the duo, especially Norris, makes small mistakes that make it impossible to fight with Verstappen, Who is never wrong. But the team’s popes accept it and chose not to prioritize success by making movements that caused an advantage in that 2-1 on track.

In the last handful of turns of the boring career, Piastri was faster than Norris, but either to try a overcoming maneuver. The Australian torted the team on the radio, with the classic message that he had more rhyme than Norris. TOHe kept a team order that would allow him to go to English and try to go for Max. “The rhythm of Lando is the one.” Nothing to accept the order.

After the race, Piastri explained: “I think that if I had the position I could have attacked Max, I asked a question and I had a fair answer. They told me no and is fine. That is running.” When looking for reasons why he could not win and he had barely complying with third place on his birthday (it is the seventh pilot in the history of the F1 that ends between the three on the day of his anniversary), he did not look for excuses: “The classification is very important in Formula 1 and there I lost”.

Norris, meanwhile, also left his analysis of the career: “I think we lost it yesterday, we had a even rhythm. I had nothing special to grab Max and did not make any mistake. I think we were faster than Max, but not enough. I tried to find the way, but when there is a clean air with a clean air, it is difficult. I don’t have to complain, Max did a better job, he achieved pole and won today. ”