The Athletic Coming up, Gary is baffled by McLaren's strategy, concerned about Adrian Nui's team principal move, and he answers your questions on graining, Piastri's low-grip troubles and plank skits.

Welcome to the Race F-1 Tech Show. I'm Ed Straw, but far more importantly, I'm joined by Gary Anderson. Gary, how are you? Are you still reeling from McLaren's baffling Qatar Grand Prix strategy?

Yes, it was all a bit strange, I must admit. I think, you know, Piaastri showed that he'd got back to terms with the speed of the car and maximising his performance.

You know, sprint race, pool, sprint race win, pool for a Grand Prix. Yeah, not by much, but a bit.

Showed that it was back in the battle and, to be honest, McLaren threw it away on them.

It's just, I just sat there screaming at the TV to be honest because it's just ridiculous.

I think they probably treated like a normal Grand Prix,

where lap 7 is a bit early to pit under a safety car.

If you've got a normal Grand Prix to run,

because you've got to do more on the tyres from there onwards,

you're going to do more laps in the tyres than you want it to,

but it wasn't a normal Grand Prix.

25-lap stipulation meant quite simply work out from the end of the race, two 25 lap stints, there's five laps and seven laps from the safety car come out.

Perfect.

Absolutely perfect timing to take advantage of it.

You know, they say that, oh, they kept more flexibility by doing what they did, but they

didn't.

Flexibility wasn't in that race because of

the, because of the tire limitation lapse, you just had to comply with the regulations and make sure

you made the best out of it. And, you know, if I was pastoral or Norris, especially pastoral,

I would be really in there banging a desk, you know, just trying to work out who come up with the fact of not petting because he was leading.

He had a good enough lead to not get caught up in the traffic coming into the pit lane.

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