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[FittingMechanics]

Piastri had similar pace all over the place last year. Won in Baku but nowhere in many races. Norris easily dominated him in most.

If anything it was strange that he managed to build a gap on Norris.

Maybe the car was more benign and as they lost the gap they need to use setups that are more on the edge.

[Darth-Piekus]

The sudden loss of speed that Piastri is experiencing remainds me of 2007 when same thing happened to Alonso.
Years after all Hamilton fans remember is how rookie beat champion,when in fact it was all orchestrated by English team.

You know very well that was never the case. Both 2007 teammates were pretty much equal all year.

[SilviuAgo]

The sudden loss of speed that Piastri is experiencing remainds me of 2007 when same thing happened to Alonso.
Years after all Hamilton fans remember is how rookie beat champion,when in fact it was all orchestrated by English team.

And Oscar is stupid not to say a thing about it? hard to believe. Weber will make a huge scandal if something like this happen to Oscar. So no mate, just too slow on this kind of track/conditions.

[Trocola]

The sudden loss of speed that Piastri is experiencing remainds me of 2007 when same thing happened to Alonso.
Years after all Hamilton fans remember is how rookie beat champion,when in fact it was all orchestrated by English team.

Norris could be far in front of Piastri if he hadn't had the engine blown in Zandvoort and the crash in Canada where Piastri didn't leave space to Lando

[Xero]

The xenophobia towards anything British in F1 is getting ridiculous now. It's all just gaslighting and Mandela effect nonsense. I'm team before driver, but I can't lie, a Lando title win would taste so sweet.

I do think Oscar is very much still in contention, regardless of today's result. As much as we can point to him underperforming now, Lando has arguably underperformed most of the season, so the swing for both drivers is why we're seeing such a gap between them now. Back to my original point; Lando isn't getting the credit he deserves. Oscar will bounce back, zero doubts.

[selvam_e2002]

The sudden loss of speed that Piastri is experiencing remainds me of 2007 when same thing happened to Alonso.
Years after all Hamilton fans remember is how rookie beat champion,when in fact it was all orchestrated by English team.

Yup. I agree. I supposed to say that in forum... but you did it. It may be the team who is playing with Oscar. I don't think it can happen all of sudden.

[littlebigcat]

The conspiracy theorists are quite laughable. If McLaren were doing anything of the sort, Webber would be waging such a fierce PR war we’d be hearing nothing of it.

I mean look how the whole Renault thing went down with Piastri, there’s no way he would stand for it.