{"id":302878,"date":"2025-11-23T05:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302878\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T05:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T05:12:08","slug":"oscar-piastri-on-back-foot-as-teammate-claims-pole-for-crucial-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302878\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri on back foot as teammate claims pole for crucial race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking from the pit wall, McLaren CEO Zak Brown admitted that his drivers just didn’t have the “race-winning pace” to compete with the drivers at the front. <\/p>\n

“Not the greatest start unfortunately,” Brown said from the pit wall to the Sky Sports commentators. <\/p>\n

“I think Lando’s got similar pace to Max and George, but doesn’t appear to be quicker. <\/p>\n

“So, we’ll have to see what long runs look like on the hard tyres, and same thing with Oscar. <\/p>\n

“I think we’ve got a couple of cars to pit in front of us, so let’s see.<\/p>\n

\"Zak<\/p>\n

Zak Brown and his drivers. \u00a0Formula 1 via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“But it’s a difficult race, I’m not sure we’ve got race-winning pace.” <\/p>\n

Asked about the start of the race, Brown admitted that Norris “cooked it a bit” and went wide to let Max Verstappen take the lead. <\/p>\n

“Max got a little bit better jump, and Lando went to protect and just cooked it a little bit,” he added. <\/p>\n

“But good to see he wasn’t going to make it easy.”:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking from the pit wall, McLaren CEO Zak Brown admitted that his drivers just didn’t have the “race-winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-302878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}