Norris takes pole in Mexico as Piastri struggles
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Oscar Piastri admitted he was dumbfounded at his lack of pace after another difficult qualifying session for the F1 championship leader. Piastri, who has a 14-point lead over McLaren teammate Lando Norris and 40 points ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, has endured a poor run of form and Saturday at the Mexico GP was no different.
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Verstappen and Piastri Faced Different Frustrations as Norris Aced Them in Mexico City F1 Qualifying
When Lando Norris needed an advantage the most, his WDC competitors, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri, struggled in qualifying, suffering from different woes.
F1championship leader Oscar Piastri is proving that his personal impact goes far beyond lap times and podiums.
Oscar Piastri hopes his past experiences can help him in the F1 championship as he prepares for the Mexican Grand Prix.
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Sinister theory about Oscar Piastri rejected as 'awful' truth comes to light about F1 leader
The conspiracy theorists have gone into overdrive after Oscar Piastri claimed "something weird happened" to his McLaren during the Mexico Grand Prix. But the more popular theory is he simply doesn't perform as well at the tracks that feature in the second half of the F1 season,
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Andrea Stella offers explanation for Piastri’s lack of pace
All eyes will be on Lando Norris heading into Turn 1, with the British driver in a unique position to retake the Championship leader. Only a few months after his catastrophic mechanical failure in Zandvoort,
What was supposed to be a continuation of a close fight between the three main title contenders turned into a one-man show in Mexico City.
Charles Leclerc was the only driver to briefly challenge Norris’s supremacy when he took provisional pole after the first runs of Q3, but he was soundly beaten on the second runs to end up 0.262 seconds adrift. Lewis Hamilton was just 0.09 seconds slower in third.