Oscar Piastri reveals 'important' factor in Monaco GP procession escape

Oscar Piastri has stated that managing the F1 power unit will be an important factor during the Monaco Grand Prix despite the limited top speed around the circuit.

However, the Australian stated that if all drivers manage to stay on top of the processes, it's likely to be a traditional Monaco race with few overtakes.

Monaco has long been known to be a track that generates little to no on-track passes due to its narrow layout.

While wheel-to-wheel racing has largely been dictated by energy management this year, it was considered less of a factor in Monaco due to the circuit characteristics.

However, Piastri does not quite see it that way. 

“Managing the power unit is still going to be important, because it's very sensitive to pace, amount of full throttle time, the amount of breaking time,” Piastri told media including RacingNews365.

“It's whether you wake up on the wrong side of the bed, it seems like.

“That's going to be an important thing to manage, but providing no one gets that dramatically wrong, then it's still going to be a Monaco race.”

Piastri qualified for the race in seventh place, and his outing didn't come without its troubles as he touched the wall on his first lap in Q3.

While his second attempt was not perfect, it was an improvement - but Piastri conceded that he did not have the pace to move into the top six.

“It was pretty good until that point but when you're pushing as hard as we are and you know you've got to find a fair bit of time to even stand a chance of being with the others, mistakes and wild moments are going to happen. 

“The second lap was a bit cleaner. It still wasn't perfect, but even with tidying that up, maybe I could have got a bit closer to P6. 

“But I still would have been seventh.”