Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris both blamed for the reddiction of the worst qualifying result of McLaren of the season in the first chance of the team to conquer the Constructors Championship.
Piastri collapsed from Q3 for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on bend 3 without having put a time, leaving him on the grid ninth. Shortly thereafter, Norris, in turn, hit the exit barrier 15, and although he was able to continue, the incident took him enough time to leave him a barely better seventh and 1,122 seconds behind Pole-Getter Max Verstappen.
McLaren has to surpass Ferrari with nine points and prevent Mercedes from scoring it with 12 points or more to secure the championship. Even with Charles Leclerc who crashed from the qualification in 10th and Lewis Hamilton is eliminated in the 12th, McLaren would not conquer the title if the end positions reflect the starter schedule.
The non -characteristic clutter means that there will be no McLaren on the front two rows for the first time this season.
Piastri, who was not lower for this weekend for this weekend than fourth, took responsibility for his crash.
“I am never someone who blames something other than myself, and that is what I’m going to keep up until I see something that tells me differently,” he said, although he admitted that he was not sure what wrong he had committed after changes in his car felt much more comfortable than he had on Friday.
“Today I felt much happier with the car and the job I did,” he said. “It was just a bit difficult to get everything together. That was the biggest thing. But the potential was there, while it was disputable yesterday if it were.
“In turn, I tried a bit too hard in turn.
The Piastri crash left the goal wide for Norris to score pole or an other increased scheduling lock to cause maximum damage to the lead of his title rival, but he did not succeed in starting only two places for the sister car. Norris followed two laps ago with 31 points after his engine -related pension in the Netherlands and refused to consider this a missed opportunity.
“No, because I still did everything I could,” he was full.
But he also admitted errors, in his case by arguing to first leave Pit Lane in the queue for the last laps in an attempt to prevent yellow or red flags that eventually never came out.
“It was just the wrong decision to finally make,” he admitted. “If everyone else has a yellow behind him because someone else went behind me, you wouldn’t ask me this question. Sometimes it goes here, sometimes not.
“Today I was struggling more because I did not make the best decision. But that is a afterwards, no incorrect at that time.”
Although the weekend started as a favorite to win the Grand Prix, Norris’s optimism for McLaren’s Sunday recovery was limited after the disturbed Friday matches and the humble starting positions of the team.
“I think we won’t have the pace to beat Max,” he said. “I think he will just be fast. He has been fast all weekend. If they can easily win in Monza, they can easily win again this weekend.
“I didn’t do a high-fuel run. I have not generally done many laps this weekend. I have many questions that I still have to answer. I have a lot of work that I have to do tonight to look at Oscar’s long-term things, see how the car is about, what the problems are to be and I can have long things.
But with Ferrari who is probably in the mix for the same points as McLaren, Norris added every thought to seal the title far from the spirit of his team.
“I don’t think we’re thinking about that right now,” he said. “We just try to get the best out of both cars, and it is clear that today has not been the best day. Tomorrow is a new day, and we will get the best results we can.”
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