The McLaren couple ready to challenge each other: will harmony in the team hold? The Australian in qualifying did not grant his partner’s trail. And there is the Max variable
“The road is very long going towards curve one.” They say it almost in chorus, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norristhinking about the departure of the Grand Prix tomorrow in Montmelò, who will see them trigger once again next to each other. They are more and more them, this world challenge: Lando against Oscar, Oscar against Lando. To divide them today in the Spanish qualification were just over two tenths in favor of the young Australian, with the British in pursuit in the front row. Both want to win, in the Spanish GP, to pull a clear line on the dynamics of this championship: Norris comes from Vincente after the perfect weekend of Monacoin recovery on the pilot ranking, but Plastri holds the leadership with three points ahead of the league: “After this pole I am very happy, so far it has been a great weekend and the car has been incredible. Give a turning point of the genre is very satisfactory but tomorrow the race will be interesting, I have to start well”.
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That tomorrow at the start of the race you decide a lot of their Sunday and, who knows, perhaps even a part of the dynamics that will guide the continuation of the season, the story of Montmelò teaches him: right from the departure of the Barcelona GP, In 2016, the diatribe was triggered between two teammatesonce fraternal friends, fighting for the world title. They were Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton And their accident on the first round marked the end of a team work and harmony in a indisputable way. An harmony that lives in McLaren today with great pride of the entire team: there is no first and second driver, in the English team, and the two young Woking talents are free to battle and challenge each other to get the best out of the car. “We want to win with two pilots” explained Team Principal Andrea Stella, convinced that only leaving them free platelets and Norris can they improve continuously.
The first signs of the battle between them, however, in Barcelona they made themselves known starting from the Q3 of qualifications where The Australian at the first attempt of the launched lap did not grant the wake to his partner team behind him, nailing to the finish and moving from the trajectory so as not to help the British. No incorrectness between the two, as Piatters had already anticipated on Spanish Thursday, but no gifts for a partner who turns into the track in the first rival.
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To increase the uncertainties of the street arrives the Max Verstappen Charge Which in that unforgettable Spanish GP of 2016 exploited the accident between Rosberg and Hamilton to win his first career Grand Prix, in his debut race with the Red Bull team. The Dutchman, who will take third tomorrow behind the two McLaren, at the end of the qualifications he tied up the two rivals: “I think it’s time to shine in corner one – he said turned to Piatri and Norris – We can arrive all three paired for the photographs. Why not?“. A joke, that of Max, who hides a hypothesis not so far from reality. Because that” very long road towards curve one “of which the two McLaren drivers speak, tomorrow in the race it will seem even more distant.
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