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the vague tragedy of Oscar attempting to explain to his team why it might actually be a bad idea to start on intermediate tyres on a dry track whilst they ignore him

bass-engineer

INT: Do you think the timing of the safety car cost you the win? PIASTRI: . . . I would've loved to have seen how it would've panned out. I need to look back whether Kimi was quicker than George or similar pace -- I think if he was the same pace as George, then it would've been a stressful afternoon 'cause I probably would've had both of them on my -- gearbox. But I think once Kimi had clean air, clearly he was a lot faster than me. So I'm not sure we would've won the race but I certainly would've loved to have found out. INT: That would have been intriguing, but have you come away from today thinking Mercedes are beatable? PIASTRI: Um . . . yes. We knew from last year that even when you have the best car, you still need to operate it at an incredibly high level and I think today on our side, we did a really good job of that. But I think it's interesting to see when somebody else has the fastest car that it's not that straightforward. And I think the fact that I could keep George behind for so long was really encouraging. But we're under no illusion, we did everything right this weekend and we still got beaten by fifteen seconds. So we've got a pretty big gap to fill, I'm confident we can get there, but yeah, we've still got some work to do.

oscar piastri in the japanese gp post-race press conference, 2026

#his pause to say gearbox....he was thinking of saying ass....