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Oscar Piastri on poor Mexico F1 qualifying: ‘My lack of speed is a mystery’

Oscar Piastri will start the 2025 Mexico City GP from seventh rather than eighth on the grid, thanks to Carlos Sainz’s five-place penalty, but that will be of little comfort given that the Formula 1 championship leader’s fastest Q3 lap was 0.588s off McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.

Piastri has been unable to explain the deficit he has carried to Norris all through the weekend, though team principal Andrea Stella described it as “milliseconds in every corner”.

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