{"id":147331,"date":"2025-05-31T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147331\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:17:10","slug":"oscar-piastri-relieved-to-grab-pole-ahead-of-interesting-race-in-spain-as-norris-blames-little-mistakes-for-missing-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/147331\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri relieved to grab pole ahead of \u2018interesting\u2019 race in Spain as Norris blames \u2018little mistakes\u2019 for missing out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m very proud of the work done today and I\u2019m starting in the best spot, so I can&#8217;t thank the team enough and hopefully we can have some fun tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Norris, meanwhile, was left to rue some errors during his own lap but praised the performance of his team mate, commenting: \u201cOscar drove very well. I think the pace is definitely there, just a couple of little mistakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/live-coverage-qualifying-in-spain-2025.OpNpS8ZKNPIzaXGc8Hpxh\" node=\"[object Object]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AS IT HAPPENED: Follow the action from Spanish GP Qualifying as Piastri takes impressive pole<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t do it, and Oscar like I said was driving well all weekend so a good result for the team, a nice 1-2 and an interesting start for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A small moment occurred between the McLaren cars during the initial runs of Q3 when Norris gained a tow from Piastri, resulting in the Australian calling it \u201ccheeky\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if this hinted at the potential battle that could unfold between them on Sunday, the Briton responded: \u201cHopefully not, hopefully it\u2019s just an easy race for me!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect it, it\u2019s a long run down to Turn 1. Normally it\u2019s interesting and we\u2019ve got a lot of quick guys behind us, so we won\u2019t count them out. A good result for today, I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cBut I\u2019m very proud of the work done today and I\u2019m starting in the best spot, so I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-147331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114603586070507154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}