Oscar Piastri has as soon as once more dismissed fears McLaren’s season will likely be curtailed by the FIA’s flexi-wing clampdown at this weekend’s F1 Spanish Grand Prix, describing the change as “overhyped”.
The large speaking level heading into this weekend’s race on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is the FIA’s extra stringent checks on the entrance wing.
Forward of the 2025 F1 season, the game’s governing physique introduced that stricter checks can be launched for the Spanish GP amid issues over how a lot entrance and rear wings had been flexing.
McLaren’s rear wing caught the eye of the F1 paddock following Piastri’s win on the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Since then, measures have been taken to observe aeroelasticity.
Quite a few drivers have downplayed claims that the change may have a huge impact on the pecking order in Spain.
Piastri additionally feels that McLaren making a small change to their entrance wing will solely have a small influence.
“I believe the largest downside is how overhyped it’s,” Piastri mentioned in Barcelona, the place Crash.web are current within the paddock.
“We all know what’s totally different. I believe everybody must change to an extent. I’ve not run the entrance wing however Lando has already run the entrance wing earlier than this yr. We’re assured that’s not our magic bullet.
“We don’t have a magic bullet. That’s not our fundamental energy.”
F1 title race hots up at McLaren
Following Lando Norris’ win in Monaco, there at the moment are simply three factors between the McLaren drivers forward of Sunday’s race.
Piastri has received 4 of the opening eight races, however Norris hit again in Monte Carlo with a spectacular qualifying lap, setting him up for his first win within the principality.
The Australian anticipates will probably be tight together with his teammate as soon as once more this weekend.
“I hope so. It’s all the time been tight in all places we’ve gone,” he added.
“There’s been weekends the place I’ve been a bit faster. There’s been weekends the place Lando’s been a bit faster however they’ve not essentially been the weekends the place we’ve crushed one another.
“There’s there’s extra to it than simply being quick, so, I believe it’s gonna be, , it’s gonna ebb and circulate a bit via the entire yr, however I imply I’m I’m assured I believe we’ve analyzed what went a bit of bit flawed in Monaco, I imply it nonetheless wasn’t a horrible weekend however simply not so good as a few of the weekends have been this yr for me, so, we’ve checked out what we will do a bit higher and we’ll try to put that in motion.”
