PIASTRI: “We should be up there, fighting for victory”

The Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), that this Sunday, coinciding with its twenty -quarter birthday, it will be third in the Japan Grand Prixthe third of the Formula One World Cuphe said after the Suzuka qualification that they have been “fast and wet” east, so They should “fight for victory.”

“It’s okay to have put the two cars in the ‘Top 3’ today,” said Piastri, winner two weeks ago in China; whose partner, English Lando Norris -Leder of the World Cup-, will be second, from the first row and next to the Quadruple Dutch World Champion Max Verstappen (Red Bull); That, after dominating the qualification, he signed his fourth first ‘pole’ in the queen category, the first of the season.

“I felt good for much of the qualification and especially at the beginning of the Q3; but that last lap did not come out, so I think I left something in my pocket,” said Melbourne’s pilot, who in Shanghai had signed his first ‘pole’ in Formula one, in which eleven podiums and three fast laps.

“We said before the start of the season that the margins were going to be incredibly narrow and that was demonstrated today,” said the great promise turned into a reality of Australian motoring, which remained only four hundredths of the chrono with which Verstappen signed his fourth ‘pole’ in Suzuka on Saturday.

“Everything is at play tomorrow and we have a great car. We don’t know what will happen over time, but this year We have already been fast on dry clues and wet tracks, so we should be up there, fighting for victory. So we will see what we can do, “Piastri said this Saturday in Japan.