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Oscar Piastri says his “most awkward” cooldown room experience was “after Spa, where George won and Lewis finished second”.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri says the interactions in the cooldown room after this year’s Belgian Grand Prix were “the most awkward” for him.
It’s a race that Lewis Hamilton had dominated, but after George Russell switched to a risky one-stop strategy, he ultimately managed to win it, followed by Lewis in P2.
George was later disqualified after his car was found to be underweight, but in the cooldown room this fact was still not known.
“The most awkward cooldown room…” Piastri told UK’s Cosmopolitan.
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“I mean, I’ve not been in that many, but the most awkward one was after Spa, where George won and Lewis finished second.
“I finished third on the road, and then, of course, George got disqualified. It was tense.
“Lewis drove a great race. In a lot of circumstances, he should have won that race pretty comfortably, so I understood exactly how he was feeling at that point.
“I could very much sense that Lewis did not want to be… he wasn’t in a chatty mood, so I just watched and looked at the highlights in silence and kept to myself,” he concluded.
