McLaren F1 boss Andrea Stella feels that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris lost out to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc on pure performance rather than strategy.

Despite out-qualifying and💟 leading Leclerc in the e🗹arly phase of the race, Norris was ultimately beaten by the Ferrari driver to second-place.

After the race on Sunday, Norris thought that McLaren lost out to Ferꩲrari on strategy at Albert Park.

He said: "I think when you take the Red Bull out of it, I would say [it was not a surpris🌃e]. I think our pace has been good all weekend.

"We put things together very nicely yesterday and showed a good long run pace on Friday. So I wouldn't have said we had no chance. I didn't expect for us to be competing against the Ferraris today and I think our pace was not as good as Carlos's, but p⛄robably better than Cha🐈rles'.

"Being honest, we maybe missed out a little bit on a♐n opportunity to be P2 today. For us to say that, it's a good sign and I think it's a good positive for the whole team, a good boost."

Stella explained McLaren were “aggressive” with their strategy choices on Sunday, highlighting their decision to stop 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri at the same time as Leclerc.

"It's possible. It's p🅺ossible. That was very, very early in the race, a race with a high degree of uncertainty as to the behaviour of the hard tyres.

"And in fact, we saw that there were c🐟ertainly some big cars that didn't look quick at all because they we🍒re not working well with the tyres - one is the Red Bull of [Sergio] Perez [who finished fifth].

"So, I think we actually went for this aggressive strategy, trying to pass Leclerc with Oscar. But Leclerc de🍨cided that it was a good idea as well. And they 🦩went at the same time - potentially, because of listening to our radio.

"Thꦿis also meant that Leclerc and Oscar would have gone below two cars fighting each other. So, with Lando in a strong position, we thought that was an unnecessary risk."

Strategy aside, Stel𓄧la thinks Ferrari simply had the quicker car in Australia, but remains hopeful of being even more competitive next time out at Suzuka.

"Leclerc finished ahead of Lando because they have a faster car at the moment," he add꧟ed.

"The positive news is that this faster car is not faster by much at all. We were very close, which I think is encouraging for Japan in which some of the characteristics th♒at make Australia good for us take another step further in having a higher ratio of medium-high-speed [corners] compared to low-speed."