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Speaking further on the scrutiny that the rear wing had faced recently during Thursday’s press conference, Piastri suggested that such attention is “natural” when a team is performing at a high level.
“I think you look at any car that’s been competitive and it always gets scrutinised to the highest level,” the Australian said. “You look at the Mercedes a few years ago with their rear wing and the infamous 50K touch. You look at a lot of the teams trying to work out Red Bull’s DRS effect for the last couple of years.
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“We’ve seen flexi front wings in the past and all sorts, so I think, naturally, there’s going to be scrutiny of just people curious to know why your car is competitive. So, I certainly don’t think it’s personal to us.
“All the other teams are trying to find, including ourselves – we’re not just thinking that we’re the best out there and we don’t need to learn anything from anyone else. We’re always looking at the other teams as well.
“So I think it’s only natural and when you’re at the front and when you have a car within a second of you for 30 laps and the rear wing camera on there for 30 laps, then naturally people are going to notice it more too.”
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