Piastri puts 'unfair' McLaren decision that derailed his chance of winning under scrutiny

As the race came to its first batch of pitstops, Piastri was hunting down eventual winner and teammate Lando Norris for P1. Nevertheless McLaren opted to have the Briton box first, and leave Piastri out longer, potentially to give the Aussie a shot to come back at his teammate with fresher rubber, or to protect Norris' position perhaps?

Could the race result have changed had McLaren pitted Piastri the very folloing lap after Norris? "I don't know yet. We'll go back and look through it," said the championship leader to media including GPblog after the race.

However, the alternate strategy McLaren chose to put Piastri on put the Aussie driver in an uphill battle from that moment onward.

"In the moment, I thought that [strategic decision was] giving myself a bit more work to do but with better tyres was going to be an interesting option. With hindsight, yeah, maybe you can say it wasn't the right call, but there's a lot of things you can say in hindsight," said Piastri defending his team's proceedings and decision making process throughout the race.