Miami Grand Prix dash pole-winner Andrea Kimi Antonelli was left irritated by Oscar Piastri’s transfer on him on the opening nook of the Saturday race – and was disillusioned that the Australian was not penalised.
Piastri grabbed a barely higher getaway off the road in a moist begin to the shorter race, leaving Antonelli to attempt to dangle onto the lead across the exterior of the primary nook.
Nevertheless, the Mercedes rookie discovered his path into Flip 1 blocked by Piastri’s McLaren, leaving Antonelli to take to the run-off. He subsequently ceded two additional locations to Lando Norris and Max Verstappen, and revealed his frustrations over the radio that he felt he was pushed off the street by Piastri.
The stewards deemed that Piastri had the precise to the nook and didn’t take any additional motion, to which Antonelli sarcastically remarked “good to know”.
“It was a fantastic alternative; I am a bit aggravated about lap one with the way it went,” Antonelli advised Sky following the dash race.
“It looks as if it is like this, that you are able to do principally no matter you need, so it is good to know for the long run.
“Undoubtedly it is a disgrace, however fortunately we’ve a qualifying to bounce again.”
Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
Picture by: James Sutton / Motorsport Photos
Antonelli’s boss Toto Wolff felt that the present driving tips – which prioritise a driver on the within being forward on the apex – usually are not “setting good precedents” and that it enfranchised drivers to easily come off the brakes and go away no room.
Wolff added that Antonelli had maybe wised as much as the character of F1 in his first-corner alternate with Piastri, though felt it should not have occurred.
“I do not suppose we’re setting good precedents,” Wolff advised Sky. “You are simply releasing the brake and then you definitely push the opposite man off.
“And for the junior formulation additionally, I feel you have to go away a automotive house, but it surely’s form of creeped in: Flip 1, push them out.
“And it is Kimi’s sixth race or no matter it’s, and now he is discovered the lesson that that is what you have to do. So I am not fully agreeing with that, however possibly that is how we have allowed it for just a few years now.”
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