Oscar Piastri was not holding back after feeling as though Lance Stroll did him no favours in his Monza quest to chase down Charles Leclerc.
Piastri looked primed to win the Italian Grand Prix, only for Ferrari to throw a major curveball on home soil by committing to the one-stop strategy. That left Piastri on a mission to hunt down and pass Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc.
Oscar Piastri delivers scathing Lance Stroll ‘go-kart’ dig
Additional reporting by Thomas Maher and Sam Cooper
Piastri would pick off Sainz, but with eight laps to go, 11.6 seconds was the gap to Leclerc, Piastri ultimately falling 2.664s short as Leclerc sent the tifosi into raptures.
And Piastri said he encountered some not “very helpful” drivers along the way in that pursuit, pointing the finger at Aston Martin driver Stroll specifically for costing him “a couple of seconds”.
Not mincing his words, Piastri claimed Stroll – the last of the classified runners in P19 – “was driving like he was in his first go-kart race”.
Asked by the Formula 1 website if he really believed he could eliminate that gap to Leclerc, Piastri replied: “I thought it would be tough, but I thought it would be possible.
