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Filip Cleeren

Why F1 drivers are being beaten by their own power units

McLaren suspects Oscar Piastri's deficit to team-mate Lando Norris has "nothing to do with his driving", and everything with its Formula 1 power unit algorithms.

Piastri qualified two tenths behind Norris at Spa-Francorchamps, with virtually all of that deficit coming on the straight line between Stavelot and the Bus Stop Chicane, during the derating phase in which cars are running out of electric energy and are already starting to slow down.

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