2024 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix Highlights

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, and Team Principal Andrea Stella after the 2024 Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.

After starting from pole position, Lando loses two places. Oscar gains a position. The pit stop window opens. Lando stays out and moves back into P1. Oscar moves up to P3. Running out of tyres, Oscar gets overtaken by Verstappen. Oscar boxes, swapping his Softs to Mediums. He comes out in P11. Lando boxes have also been switched to medium tyres. He comes out in P6. Lando overtakes Sainz for P4 on fresher tyres, and Oscar overtakes several cars for P8. Lando returns to the top three after overtaking Hamilton for P3 and Russell for P2. Oscar overtakes Gasly for P7. The grid starts to pit again, including race leader Verstappen. Lando is P1. Oscar boxes for Soft tyres on Lap 47, with Lando, following later that lap. Oscar is P8, Lando P2. Despite reducing their gaps to the cars ahead, Lando finishes P2, and Oscar finishes P7.

Lando Norris

A frustrating start, simple as that. I lost a little bit to Max; he wasn’t completely alongside, but with George on the outside, I didn’t have room to manoeuvre, which had me over. It’s disappointing, but there are still a lot of positives to take away from Barcelona. We come away with a lot of points and the car was amazing today, I think we were the quickest out there, so a big thanks to the entire team for their efforts throughout the weekend.

We’re now focusing on Austria and Silverstone, two of my favourite circuits and tracks where we have a good record, so I’m excited. We’re in a good spot and doing well each week. I need to tidy up a few little bits in the upcoming races.

Oscar Piastri

P7 rounds off a tough weekend. I think today’s race was a positive to take away, but overall, it was a challenging few days in Spain. Obviously, qualifying was the biggest frustration, making it very difficult to go into the race. I think we did some good things on strategy, trying to pull ourselves up, but ultimately, we didn’t quite have the pace this weekend. However, we’ll go to Austria again next week.

Andrea Stella

When you start from pole position gained on merit, it’s always a little disappointing not being able to convert it into a race win. However, today’s race was decided on some details, particularly the fact that we couldn’t keep the first position at the first corner. But Lando was careful, and there was not much we could do with Russell gaining through the slipstream and Verstappen having the inside into corner one.

From there, we lost a bit of time in the first stint, but actually, thanks to the strong pace of the car and a very good strategy, we recovered most of this time, and we were close to Max once again at the end of the race. On Oscar’s side, it’s good that we could recover some of the positions and score important points for the team in our quest for the Championship.

I want to take the opportunity to thank all the teams, the FIA, F1 and the local services that showed a great sense of support and gave their assistance when we lost access to the Team Hub during the race weekend. That was much appreciated and showed a strong sense of community, which I would like to applaud and remark.

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