Piastri unconcerned at ending Friday practice 11th after missing first session · RaceFans

Dezember 5, 2025

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Oscar Piastri was glad together with his automotive’s steadiness regardless of ending the second apply session eleventh and lacking the primary.

The championship contender needed to miss the primary hour of apply so McLaren might run a junior driver in his automotive for the second time this yr, as required by the principles.

First apply on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tends to be unrepresentative of the aggressive classes because it takes place earlier within the day when the monitor is hotter. Piastri made a mistake on his remaining run on the gentle tyres within the second session however stated he was completely satisfied together with his automotive’s steadiness on the tougher rubber.

“I received there fairly nicely on the medium, simply on the gentle simply I didn’t get essentially the most out of the grip on that first timed lap,” he advised the official Method 1 channel. “So I’m discovering my toes, I feel. Clearly there’s some issues to attempt to enhance for tomorrow however I feel after only one session it’s not too unhealthy.”

Piastri stated his automotive “feels prefer it’s in a fairly first rate place” and simply wants “some small tweaks” earlier than tomorrow’s working. His crew mate Lando Norris was quickest of all, beating their championship rival Max Verstappen by over three tenths of a second.

“The automotive’s appeared fast,” Piastri admitted. “I simply must get some extra laps underneath my belt and discover my toes a bit extra actually, that’s all. So just a few extra laps tomorrow, just a few extra units of tyres and hopefully we’ll be there.”

Norris, who took half in each apply classes, stated he can nonetheless see room for enchancment within the automotive and expects their rivals will shut the hole to them in qualifying tomorrow.

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“Clearly, from the occasions and all the things, issues are good on the minute,” he stated. “However I nonetheless desire a bit extra from the automotive.

“I’m not fully completely satisfied, not fully assured. We’re a bit in the midst of attempting some various things and attempting to grasp some issues with the automotive. So hopefully there’s some extra stuff we will get out of it in a single day.

“It’s not been a foul day, for certain, it’s been a optimistic day. However we all the time realize it will get rather a lot nearer going into quali, so nothing to smile about simply but.”