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"It sucks" – Oscar Piastri feels F1 grids are decided by "computers behaving or misbehaving"

Motorsport.comJuly 20, 2026

Curated for Torqlytics readers — aggregated from trusted F1 publishers, not original reporting.


From the very beginning, it was clear that the Formula 1 weekend at Spa-Francorchamps would present a major challenge in terms of energy management. The "energy-starved" circuit in the Ardennes features long straights and fast corners, with few opportunities to harvest energy.As a result, drivers had to rely solely on the internal combustion engine through the second sector (around 540 ...