F1: Lando Norris won his home race in the British Grand Prix, finishing 7-seconds ahead of McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, who was handed a 10-second penalty.
But it was a moment on the brakes that ultimately decided the race — that prevented Oscar Piastri from dominating Max Verstappen and Lando Norris as he threatened to early in the race.
Preparing to restart the race at the end of lap 21, he hit the brakes hard down the Wellington straight. For the first time in his Formula 1 career Piastri was frustrated beyond words, the Australian unusually curt in his post-race media commitments to avoid incriminating himself. Piastri’s telemetry showed that in fact did drive similarly at the previous safety car restart on lap 17, when he hit the brakes to decelerated by 158 kph — from 208 kph down to 50 kph.When Piastri hit the brakes for the first restart, he was just at the exit of Chapel, when the field behind him wouldn’t have been travelling nearly as quickly as him.
However, the stewards agreed with Mercedes’s explanation that Russell had behaved in the same way during previous laps behind the safety car. Had it not been so wet and hot visibility not been so poor in the spray down the straight, Piastri might have got away with it. In the prevalent conditions and in that precise part of the circuit, the Australian was deemed to have acted outside the rules.
But that shouldn’t count against his victory. The story of the race is that Norris executed better on the day and claimed victory. That’s not to say it’s at Piastri’s expense — momentum doesn’t have to be zero-sum — but Norris feels back in the game in a way he didn’t before this double-header.The upgrades brought to Canada will undoubtedly be playing a role in generating some confidence in the car.
It was years ago he moved to the top of the undesirable leaderboard of most grand prix starts without standing on the podium, and it quickly became the story that dogged Hülkenberg for years. Lewis Hamilton loomed large in the second half of the race as his chief rival, the Ferrari driver surging up the order after strategy had cost him places.
“I think we really hit the nail on the head today, made all the right calls at exactly the right moments. We stayed clean and made no mistakes.”The podium is the team’s first in 13 years, dating back to Kamui Kobayashi’s third-place finish at the 2012 Japanese Grand Prix. While Sauber is a long way from where Audi will want to be in the medium term, these strong signs of progress promise the German marque that the road to the front won’t be as arduous as it looked in the last two years.Colapinto replaced Jack Doohan six races into the season to be fast, not crash and score points — per the words of de facto team principal Flavio Briatore.
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