Oscar Piastri will start from eighth on the grid in Jeddah after making a breakthrough with McLaren Oscar Piastri believes a greater degree of comfort and a number of small margins helped him make a qualifying breakthrough with McLaren. A fortnight ago, Piastri was left to lament cumulative errors that contributed to his debut qualifying session in F1 ending with a failure to get out of Q1 and an 18th-place grid slot for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Two weeks later for the one-lap showdown for the race in Saudi Arabia, Australian Piastri was a driver transformed, and in a car that offered an indication it is not as bad as was initially feared in pre-season. Aided by a driveshaft failure on Max...
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