Piastri on Spain win: Weekend I was looking for

Formula 1 title person Oscar Piastri said winning Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix was conscionable what helium needed aft losing retired to McLaren teammate Lando Norris implicit the erstwhile 2 weekends.

"It's been a large twelvemonth and this weekend's been precisely the benignant of play I was looking for," the Australian said aft his 5th triumph successful 9 races.

"We executed everything we needed to erstwhile it counted and that's each you tin inquire for. The squad gave maine a large car erstwhile again. It's a batch of amusive winning races astatine the moment."

The victory, the seventh of the 24-year-old's career, stretched Piastri's pb implicit second-placed Norris to 10 points aft the Briton reduced it to 3 with his triumph successful Monaco past Sunday.

Norris besides finished 2nd astatine Imola, the contention earlier Monaco won by Red Bull's Max Verstappen, with Piastri third.

The Australian led from rod presumption successful Spain, the apical slot connected the grid secured by the biggest borderline of the twelvemonth truthful far, aft besides topping the signifier times astatine the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.

"It's decidedly up there," Piastri said erstwhile asked whether it was his strongest yet successful Formula 1 .

"I don't cognize if it's the champion one, but surely it's been a beardown one. You know, it's beauteous hard to kick with the results we've had this weekend.

"Just the effort that's gone in, and analysing immoderate of the things from past week that we could person done amended -- I deliberation we turned it astir precise nicely and got backmost to the signifier we wanted to beryllium on."

Norris, victor of 2 races this twelvemonth truthful far, said helium did not consciousness helium had mislaid anything.

"I deliberation Oscar drove a precise bully contention contiguous and had a bully time yesterday. I had the gait to spell with him but not capable to effort and drawback up and enactment him nether threat," helium said.

"I mislaid retired to the amended feline this weekend.

"He performed yesterday and that gave him the vantage today, truthful thing much than that. I cognize wherever I request to improve, I cognize what I request to bash better.

"I consciousness assured that I tin bash it but, yeah, can't triumph them all, arsenic overmuch arsenic I privation to. It takes clip to advancement and that's what I'm moving on."