Piastri hopeful heading to Silverstone: 'Our car is fast everywhere'

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Piastri looked very pleased after P2 at the Red Bull Ring
1 July at 20:00
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  • Jeroen Immink

Oscar Piastri can look back on an excellent race at the Red Bull Ring. The Australian drove from P7 to second place, taking his second podium of the season. After the race, Piastri looked back on his performance in Austria with a sense of satisfaction.

For a long time, it looked like Piastri wouldn't be on the podium. After qualifying, he looked frustrated after seeing his fast time deleted by the track limits. But due to a strong race and the much-discussed crash between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, Piastri suddenly found himself in third. After an excellent overtaking move on Carlos Sainz, Piastri steamed to P2 which meant 18 points were banked by the 23-year-old.

Piastri, unlike Saturday, was very happy on Sunday

Afterwards, at the press conference, Piastri had his smile back on his face. "Mostly happy. I think the first stint didn't make quite as much progress as I would have liked. Obviously had a bit of an incident in Turn 1. And then, yeah, just overheated the tyres a little bit. And with the dirty air, it was so hard to get within a second. So, didn't make much progress there. But then the next two stints, it really started to come alive. Went a bit longer on both the pit stops and turns. I just kind of felt like we needed some more laps towards the end, unfortunately. But no, after starting seventh, obviously a good turnaround. Pretty happy." Piastri revealed.

Piastri, on the other hand, does expect Verstappen and Red Bull to be the fastest at the upcoming race at Silverstone. "I think obviously last year was an incredible weekend for us as a team, kind of the start of our resurgence. Like George said, Max was pretty impressive in the high-speed corners yesterday. So, you know, obviously bodes well for them at Silverstone. But I think we've got a strong car and I think we've had a really consistent car wherever we've gone. We may have had some small question marks about whether we would be as competitive when we went back to, say, a more traditional circuit like Barcelona or here, where there are some more high-speed corners compared to Canada and Monaco. But we've had a really consistent car wherever we've gone. So I think we can be pretty confident we'll be in the fight." Concluded the Australian.