{"id":91888,"date":"2025-11-30T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-laments-mclaren-strategy-robs-him-of-crucial-victory-in-qatar\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T20:04:06","slug":"piastri-laments-mclaren-strategy-robs-him-of-crucial-victory-in-qatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-laments-mclaren-strategy-robs-him-of-crucial-victory-in-qatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri laments: McLaren strategy robs him of crucial victory in Qatar"},"content":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri called the result of the Qatar Grand Prix &#8220;painful&#8221; after a strategic error by McLaren that cost him a crucial victory before the season finale in Abu Dhabi.\n\nPiastri, still in the title fight, saw his chances reduced after finishing second, behind Max Verstappen in Qatar.\n\nThe Australian driver is now 16 points behind his McLaren teammate and championship leader, Lando Norris, while Verstappen is only 12 points behind Norris.\n\nAfter winning Saturday&#8217;s sprint race and securing pole position in Qatar, Piastri was leading Sunday&#8217;s Grand Prix when an early safety car presented the opportunity to make one of the two mandatory pit stops with minimal time loss.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1130%2Fr1582891_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri started the Qatar Grand Prix on pole, having dominated all the sessions across the weekend and now drops to third in the championship standings.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Oscar Piastri comenz\u00f3 el Gran Premio de Qatar en la pole, dominando todas las sesiones del fin de semana y ahora cae al tercer lugar en la clasificaci\u00f3n del campeonato.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nMcLaren was the only team that didn&#8217;t pit under the safety car, which meant that both Piastri and Norris were at a disadvantage against Verstappen for the rest of the race.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Pretty high. And I think that says a lot, given the last races I&#8217;ve had.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWhen asked about his level of frustration with Sunday&#8217;s result, Piastri replied:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Yes, we clearly didn&#8217;t do well today, which is a shame, because the whole weekend was very, very good. We had a lot of pace.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe missed opportunity came just a week after Piastri and Norris were disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix for a technical infringement, but the Australian said that losing the victory in Qatar hurt more.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think on a personal level, I feel like I lost a victory today. In Las Vegas, I lost a P4.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nPiastri revealed that he questioned the team about whether he should pit under the safety car, but ultimately had to trust McLaren&#8217;s pit wall decision.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I asked what we were doing, because we were approaching the pit entry and I hadn&#8217;t received a call yet. I think when you don&#8217;t get a call instantly when the safety car comes out, there are probably some discussions about what to do.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri called the result of the Qatar Grand Prix &#8220;painful&#8221; after a strategic error by McLaren that cost him a crucial victory before the season finale in Abu Dhabi. Piastri, still in the title fight, saw his chances reduced after finishing second, behind Max Verstappen in Qatar. The Australian driver is now 16 points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[177,176,10765,645],"class_list":{"0":"post-91888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-mclaren","9":"tag-oscar-piastri","10":"tag-qatar-gp","11":"tag-verstappen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}