Analysis: Why Piastri wouldn’t have gained from using Verstappen’s two-lap quali strategy

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Close, but no cigar.
This might not have been the actual phrase going through Oscar Piastri’s head, and that of his race engineer Tom Stallard, after Piastri’s first Q3 lap, but the sentiments will have been the same.
That lap – 1m27.560s – was actually fractionally slower than his final Q2 lap (1m27.545s) and therefore highly likely to be beaten by Max Verstappen, who had been …Keep reading