McLaren made a “mistake” at the F1 Australian Grand Prix - but not in their big decision to swa🎃p their drivers around.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris finished on the podium after🐭 teammate Oscar 🐼Piastri was asked to surrender his position.

Piastri, who finished fourth, reacted: “It was fine. Lando qualified in front 𝕴and tried something different at the first stop, and was quicker than me in the first stint.

𓆉“It looked li🌠ke he could get in front of the Ferraris, I was holding pace with them.

“Yeah, Lando was a bit quicker so it was completely fair. As a team, we made thಌe right call.”

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz won the Australian Grand Prix ꩵahead of his teammate Charles Leclerc.

The McLaren🍬s were third an✨d fourth, in a grand prix featuring DNFs for Max Verstappen and both Mercedes drivers.

𓂃But McLaren might have secured P2 if not for an error earlier in the race, Karu💝n Chandhok noticed.

“I think they made ♑a mistake,” the Sky Sꦿports pundit explained.

“They started third and fifth, on the clean side. Bo✃th drivers got an okay getaway. They held their positions.

“On Lap 10, Norris was ahead of Leclerc. Oscar was behind him. Further back was George Russell who had pitted earlier, and was coming f🥀ast with a fresh set of tyres.

“McLaren and 𝕴Ferrari reacted to George coming. They didn’t w💞ant to lose position.

“But they react꧂ed with Oscar leading Lando for an extra five lapsꦓ.

“Those five laps meant that, with fr♏esh tyres, Oscar and Leclerc jumped ahead of 🐬Lando.

“In hindsight, if you say they could have pitted 𝄹Lando 💛and Leclerc on Lap 10 instead of Oscar, actually Oscar was still four seconds ahead of George.

“H💫e could have pitted on Lap 11, still ahead of George💮. Lando could have still stayed ahead of Leclerc.

“They could have won on both counts.

“They swapped their drivers on Lap 29 which was a fair decision. T💎hey had allowed Oscar to 🌟undercut Lando.

🐬“Oscar then made an error, he locked up the front on Lap 39, which took him out of the fight. He was 8-10 seconds behind.

“If you look at Lando’s pac𓆏e through🃏out that grand prix, he was only 2-3s behind Leclerc.

“I do think if he pitted at the same time as Leclerc on Lap 10, and Oscar pittꦍed on Lap 11, I think [Norris] could’ve hung onto second-place.”

Norris’ P3 is his 14th career podium - the most-ever for an F꧅1 driver without aﷺ grand prix victory.

Norris reacted: “I'm very happy and proud of the team as P3 and P4 are a lot of poiꦦnts in the championship, so that's the first thing.

“We missed out on Charles, I think our pace was a little bit better. He undercut us in the first stint so maybe a little bit ꦺof hope for second place.”