As for the McLaren reaction to the sprint race, that was just as interesting.
Here is Lando Norris, who by this point had already made it very clear that he wasn’t disappointed with his performance in sprint qualifying yesterday — nor the sizeable gap to his teammate on pole:
💬 “I mean, I was there yesterday. I just didn’t put things together when I needed to. I feel fine. It was a sprint race where you needed a better race car rather than the fastest car, so maybe we have to make some changes if we can.
“But I feel good. I feel like I made some steps forward for today.”
As for Oscar Piastri, he said:
💬 “Last year we saw here that following was very tough, even if you felt you were quicker. So it wasn’t a massive surprise. It was obviously a bit frustrating but yeah, I was braced for a race like that.”