Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Sunday, 23 June

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, as well as Team Principal Andrea Stella, after the Spanish Grand Prix.

As it happened

• After starting from pole position, Lando loses two places. Oscar gains a position
• The pit stop window opens. Lando stays out and moves back into P1. Oscar moves up to P3
• Running out of tyres, Oscar gets overtaken by Verstappen
• Oscar boxes, swapping his Softs to Mediums. He comes out in P11 
• Lando boxes, also swapping to the Medium tyres. He comes out in P6
• On fresher tyres, Lando overtakes Sainz for P4, and Oscar overtakes several cars for P8
• Lando returns to the top three after overtaking Hamilton for P3 and Russell for P2
• Oscar overtakes Gasly for P7
• The grid starts to pit again, including race leader Verstappen. Lando is P1
• Oscar boxes for Soft tyres on Lap 47, with Lando following later that lap. Oscar is P8, Lando P2
• Despite reducing their gaps to the cars ahead, Lando finishes P2 and Oscar finishes P7

Started	1st
Finished	2nd
Fastest Lap	1m17.115s on lap 51 (1st)
Pit stops	2, lap 23 [Soft/Medium] (2.3s) and lap 47 [Medium/Soft] (3.6s)

“A frustrating start, simple as that. I lost a little bit to Max, he wasn’t completely alongside but with George on the outside, I didn’t have room to manoeuvre and that had me over. It’s disappointing, but there are still a lot of positives to take away from Barcelona. We come away with a lot of points and the car was amazing today, I think we were the quickest out there, so a big thanks to the entire team for their efforts throughout the weekend.

“We’re now focusing on Austria and Silverstone, two of my favourite circuits and tracks where we have a good record, so I’m excited. We’re in a good spot and doing well each week, I just need to tidy up a few little bits in the upcoming races.” 

Started	9th
Finished	7th
Fastest Lap	1m17.874s on lap 56 (+0.759s, 5th)
Pit stops	2, lap 21 [Soft/Medium] (2.9s) and lap 46 [Medium/Soft] (3.0s)

“P7 rounds off a tough weekend. I think the race today was a positive to take away, but overall, a challenging few days in Spain. Obviously, Qualifying was the biggest frustration and made things very difficult going into the race. I think we did some good things on strategy, trying to pull ourselves up but ultimately didn’t quite have the pace this weekend but we’ll go again next week in Austria.” 

“When you start from pole position gained on merit, it’s always a little disappointing not being able to convert it into a race win, but actually the race today was decided by some details, in particular the fact that we couldn’t keep the first position at the first corner. But Lando was careful, and there was not much we could do with Russell gaining through the slipstream and Verstappen having the inside into corner one.  

“From there, we lost a bit of time in the first stint, but actually, thanks to the strong pace of the car and a very good strategy, we recovered most of this time, and we were close to Max once again at the end of the race. On Oscar’s side, it’s good that we could recover some of the positions and score important points for the team in our quest in the Championship. 

“I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the teams, the FIA, F1 and the local services that showed a great sense of support and gave their assistance when we lost access to the Team Hub during the race weekend. That was very much appreciated and showed a strong sense of community, which I would like to applaud and remark.”