Piastri hasn’t «mastered» F1 tyre management, but it’s «night and day» over 2023
Oscar Piastri reckons his ability to manage tyres in Formula 1 has undergone a «night-and-day» improvement over his 2023 rookie season, but feels there is still room to grow further. Although Piastri impressed in his debut F1 season last year, the main criticisms of his maiden season involved his lack of experience with managing the […]
Improving qualifying form my big focus for F1 2025
Oscar Piastri has revealed improving in qualifying is his main point of focus for the 2025 Formula 1 season after comparing unfavourably to McLaren team-mate Lando Norris. Piastri was outqualified 21-3 by Norris in 2024, albeit often by small margins, with Norris also getting the better of the Australian in sprint qualifying this year. That […]
The unspoken major factor behind McLaren’s F1 title win
“Wow” – was initially all McLaren team boss Andrea Stella could muster when Autosport raised the subject of his squad’s bulletproof reliability in Formula 1 2024 ahead of the Abu Dhabi finale. A discipline as scientific as motorsport does not really leave room for superstition, but the timing of our discussion was complex and so […]
McLaren “aware” of team orders headache to bring title home in Abu Dhabi GP
McLaren boss Andrea Stella has faith that Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will not be selfish and put their own eagerness to win the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of the team’s constructors’ championship ambitions. The Woking-based squad stands on the cusp of its first teams’ title since 1998 in the F1 season finale, as […]
Piastri won’t have to hand me F1 race wins
McLaren driver Lando Norris says team-mate Oscar Piastri won’t have to give up Formula 1 race wins to support his title bid. McLaren has come out backing Norris as he aims to overturn Max Verstappen’s 62-point lead in the drivers’ championship, with Red Bull’s downturn in form offering the Briton a realistic chance of snatching […]
How Piastri is already showing signs of being a true F1 great
“The future is his.” McLaren team principal Andrea Stella, again, saying exactly how it is. In this case, regarding the coming years of Oscar Piastri in Formula 1. Specifically, Stella was answering a question regarding how Piastri might react to the expected team orders push from McLaren to support Lando Norris’s 2024 title bid. “I […]
Piastri’s Monza F1 pass «way too close for comfort»
Lando Norris feels his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri «got way too close for comfort» on his lap-one pass at Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix. Norris started from pole ahead of Piastri but, while defending his lead into the first chicane, the Briton’s compromised exit out of the corner left him vulnerable to Piastri on the […]
Is it time McLaren asks Piastri to help back Norris’s bid for title glory?
McLaren’s Andrea Stella is a diplomatic man who is rightly earning the plaudits for overseeing the team’s substantial improvement over the past 20 months. A steady hand on the tiller, Stella is a key factor behind McLaren’s transformation and until now, has comfortably rowed down the middle in terms of siding with his drivers, maintaining […]
Norris and Piastri clear on McLaren’s rules of engagement at Dutch GP
McLaren duo Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri insist they are aware of team rules when it comes to fighting one another during the Dutch Grand Prix. Norris put in a stunning lap to take pole position in Zandvoort, while Piastri starts third with reigning world champion and local favourite Max Verstappen separating the pair. Team […]