F1Weekly Podcast # 1093

Oscar Piastri the new Dominator in Formula 1 ® Taking victory in Miami. Max’s fifth championship drifting away. LCH having a “GP2 moment and Lando is a nice guy.

This week’s Classic Nasir Hameed: Interviews with Jacky Ickx and René Arnoux.

Oscar:

To come away with a win still on Sunday is an impressive result. Obviously there was a bit of argy-bargy at Turn 1 which helped me out a little bit, and then I was aware enough to avoid Max coming through in Turn 1. From that point onwards I knew that I had a good pace advantage and clearly the car was unbelievable today. I think towards the end I started to get things a bit more back under control but there’s still definitely some things to work on from this afternoon. Very happy with the win, very happy with the points but constantly got to keep learning. Very happy to be leaving Miami on top.
It’s just incredible, the hard work that’s gone in. I remember two years ago here in Miami we were genuinely the slowest team. I think we got lapped twice.
To now have won the Grand Prix by over 35s to third is an unbelievable result and the hard work of every single person – firstly the people here at the track but everyone at the factory as well.

Max:

“Yesterday I said that I would try my very best and I gave it everything that I could, but it ended up being a struggle out there. I tried to put up a fight, but in the end it was impossible to keep them behind. We got a bit unlucky with the VSC, but of course that is part of racing and overall the pace wasn’t really there. We had nothing to lose so I was just trying to have a bit of fun on the track and it was cool to be out there racing. The race was unfortunately quite difficult for us in general and we ultimately lacked pace and struggled with the breaks. Every time that I tried to get close or push a bit more, my tyres would overheat a lot. It was really down to tyre management today and the track had quite high degradation, which is not our strong suit at the moment. We need a bit more performance to make sure we are more competitive, but we were quite far off today.”

Fernando:

“Tough race. We didn’t have the pace the whole weekend, and we expected the race to be difficult. We faced similar challenges today that we’ve had all season and couldn’t capitalise on any chaos ahead of us. We need to get better and hopefully in Imola take a step forward.”

Alex:

I’m glad I could reset and go again after yesterday! The car was quick and today was all about pure pace. I had a good rhythm all race and I’m very happy with the result. To be battling with the top teams, I can hardly believe it to be honest, when you look at where we were 12 months ago. This shows all the progress we’ve made at Grove and now we’ve shown the world that we can race at the top. This won’t happen every race and we’ll definitely have to keep fighting. For now, I’m going to enjoy it!

Nasir’s trip to France in 2009 was an F1Weekly success story having been approved for media credentials for the 24 Heures du Mans he took full advantage of the moment!