168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri has brushed off suggestions that a new FIA technical directive on front wing flexing had any impact🔯 on McLaren’s performance at the F1 Spanish Grand Prix.

The F1 world championship leader produced a stunning lap in qualifying to beat McLaren teammate and direct title rival 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris to pole at Barcelona by 0.209 seconds. Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen was third-quickest, 0.302s slower than Piastri.

McLaren’s advantage suggests that more stringent load tests t🐻o clampdown on front wing flexing had no effect on the reigning world champions. The likes of Red Bull and Ferrari pushed for the changes in the hope it would peg McLaren back.

Asked if the technical direc🎃tivꦯe had posed any challenges for McLaren, Piastri replied: “Erm… No. Not because of the technical directive, no.

“Every weeken💟d we’ve gone to𒁃 there’s been things to fine-tune but we had the same problems as usual. It was nothing new.”

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said the technical directive ended up being “quite💙 imm𓃲aterial”.

"The Technical Directive was a 🃏big talking point. It was quite immaterial. It was always going to be minor when you look ♍at the numbers,” Stella told Sky Sports F1.

"It entert♔ained to have this kind of debate but our simulations said everything was very small. We weren't concerned from this point of view.”

Piastri delighted to be back on pole

Piastri secured his fourth pole of the ౠseason with the biggest margin of 2025 so far - a week after he was outperformed by Norris in Monaco. 

“It was pretty good. I think 🎐sector one in particular felt quite strong and half way through sector two,” Piastri said of his final Q3 lap. 

“The back-end of the lap was a little bit tricker and I actually lost a little bit of time. I think here if you use up your tyres in the firs🌞t half of the lap the secon🅘d half becomes very tough.

“I knew I had some corners to tidy up in the first half of the lap, which I felt like I did a good job of. Maybe I just got too excited foඣr the second half of the lap. I don’t know, it wouldn’t be the first time.

“Maybe it was just a lack of talent in the second half. I think when you🌳 push the tyres like that and get everything out of them, there's probably a bit of a price to pay because the last sector the corners are so꧙ slow and so long.

“If I was to do it ꩵagain maybe I’d twea🥂k it slightly but I don’t really care now.”