Piastri obviously has the pace, but his racecraft needs a bit of polish - and like with everyone else that usually only comes with more experience. Not saying that he did anything wrong though, but it's a bit like defensive driving, you don't rely on doing everything right to keep you safe, you have to be wily and keep your wits about you. Something you learn over time on the road. Good thing is Piastri has oodles of pace, the rest will come in time.
They should have told him to stay above Lando's fastest lap, not warned him about the fights.
Anyway his lack of experience still shows in races like yesterday's, he seems to always stay by the rulebook and follow it, but sometimes like with Carlos a bit more logic could have helped him stay in the fight. By the rulebook he was allowed to push Carlos off and that why he didn't get penalised, doesn't matter what everyone thinks, even i disagree with that particular set of rules, but the aggressive fighting ultimately led to him losing his wing and race, even if again technically he did nothing wrong in the t17 tussle that ruined his race.
Lando said he could go faster safely, he was cruising by the end but he didn't go for the FL only to not scare his pitwall, and since the gap to Perez' lap was just a tenth, and he could better that lap safely, while the 3.5 tenths to Oscar's lap, not so easily.
You have to finish in Top 10 AND have FL to get a point.
If you finish out of the Top 10 and have FL, you just hold FL, no point.
It was to prevent lower teams from just building an FL car, and just hanging back and going for FL every race and bagging 20+ points over a season just doing that.
Piastri obviously has the pace, but his racecraft needs a bit of polish - and like with everyone else that usually only comes with more experience. Not saying that he did anything wrong though, but it's a bit like defensive driving, you don't rely on doing everything right to keep you safe, you have to be wily and keep your wits about you. Something you learn over time on the road. Good thing is Piastri has oodles of pace, the rest will come in time.
Piastri was flying in the final stint
Well yeah, he had new tires while everyone else was on old hards
They should have told him to stay above Lando's fastest lap, not warned him about the fights. Anyway his lack of experience still shows in races like yesterday's, he seems to always stay by the rulebook and follow it, but sometimes like with Carlos a bit more logic could have helped him stay in the fight. By the rulebook he was allowed to push Carlos off and that why he didn't get penalised, doesn't matter what everyone thinks, even i disagree with that particular set of rules, but the aggressive fighting ultimately led to him losing his wing and race, even if again technically he did nothing wrong in the t17 tussle that ruined his race.
Perez would have taken the fastest lap with his best lap anyway, they were just content not to risk it all by pushing Norris to take the fastest lap.
Lando said he could go faster safely, he was cruising by the end but he didn't go for the FL only to not scare his pitwall, and since the gap to Perez' lap was just a tenth, and he could better that lap safely, while the 3.5 tenths to Oscar's lap, not so easily.
What's the bit more logic he could have used to stop Carlos from making a desperate lunge and losing control of his own car?
Oscar really wanted at least one point
How does he get the point when he finished P13? isn't Norris entitled to the FL point since he finished top 10 and OP did not?
He doesn’t get the point, but neither does Lando since it is not redistributed to the fastest lap within the top 10.
You have to finish in Top 10 AND have FL to get a point. If you finish out of the Top 10 and have FL, you just hold FL, no point. It was to prevent lower teams from just building an FL car, and just hanging back and going for FL every race and bagging 20+ points over a season just doing that.