It's been revealed that Oscar Piastri secured a stunning victory at Azerbaijan by outrightly ignoring team orders. The Australian driver’s decision played a lar
at Azerbaijan by outrightly ignoring team orders. The Australian driver’s decision played a large role in his win at the Baku City Circuit, but it wasn't without a gamble from the Papaya driver.
’s advice to manage his hard tires conservatively for the remaining 36 laps, Piastri’s instincts told him to go for the overtake on the Monesgasque anyway, which was beautifully successful.“I felt a bit sorry for my race engineer because I basically tried to do that in the first stint and completely cooked my tires. My engineer came on the radio and said, ‘Let’s not do that again,’ basically, and I completely ignored him the next lap and sent it down the inside.
Holding onto the lead for the rest of the race proved to be an immense challenge. Piastri confessed, “I knew that getting into the lead was going to be, let’s say, 40 percent of the job, but that hanging on to it was going to be 60 percent, and I knew that I’d used the tires pretty heavily to try and get in front and I knew what kind of impact that had in the first stint.”
“Just trying to keep Charles behind was incredibly stressful. I couldn’t make a single mistake. I made a couple, but at a track like Baku it’s impossible to be driving flat out and not make any. I was just fortunate that they weren’t big enough that it cost me. The whole 30 laps where I was trying to keep Charles behind was incredibly tough.”“I think for me that has to be one of the best races I’ve done.
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