F1 News: Oscar Piastri Reveals Reason Behind Miami GP McLaren Failure
McLaren driver Oscar Piastri has revealed the difficulties he faced during the Miami Grand Prix last weekend.
The Australian driver and his teammate Lando Norris both struggled during the first of the American races, qualifying in sixteenth and nineteenth, respectively. The pair went on to finish the race in nineteenth and seventeenth, respectively.
Piastri has since revealed that he was struggling with a brake wire failure during the race, in an interview with motorsportweek.com:
“Well, it worked on the first lap.
“I gained a few positions off the start but about three or four laps after the pit stop I had a brake-by-wire failure with some other failures. So that was why the pace was so terrible. After that, the brake pedal was about two metres long it felt like, amongst other things.
“It was sudden, hit the brakes one lap and the brake pedal just went to the floor. I’m not sure if it was just BBW or if we had some other issues as well going on so we need to understand what went wrong.”
When asked why the team opted to start the race on soft tyres, the Australian driver responded:
“To be honest, we weren’t going to get into the points on pace today. Tried something different, didn’t really work. So yeah, challenging afternoon but we had to try something on the strategy.
“It was good [steering wheel] switch practice that’s for sure! I’m glad we did extensive work on that in testing it paid off today.”
The next important F1 date is 19 - 21 July for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.