Oscar Piastri says he’s enjoying the battle as Formula 1 championship leader

Oscar Piastri does not consciousness immoderate hostility regarding his existent presumption arsenic person successful the Formula 1 championship, and the McLaren operator says helium is "enjoying" the conflict astatine the apical of the table.

The Australian F1 operator present has a 22-point pb implicit team-mate Lando Norris, aft their clang successful Canada saw Norris discontinue from the race.

While connected the 1 manus helium did not negociate to win, 4th spot allowed him to beryllium the lone McLaren operator to decorativeness the race, further strengthening his vantage wrong the squad from Woking.

This is lone Piastri's 3rd play successful Formula 1, and his archetypal clip challenging for the title, but helium seems contented with a concern wherever galore drivers successful his spot would consciousness much pressure.

The young operator answered the question if helium feels pressure, particularly if it seems to him that this mightiness beryllium his lone accidental to triumph the title, Piastri told motorsport week that this is not the lawsuit and that helium really enjoys the existent situation.

“I don’t deliberation I spot it arsenic my lone chance,” said Piastra. “Of course, I don’t cognize what it’s going to be, but I don’t spot the constituent successful putting other unit connected myself and reasoning ‘now oregon never’.”

“I’m inactive precise aboriginal successful my career, and of people this is simply a large opportunity, but I’m conscionable going to effort to triumph arsenic galore races arsenic I can. Hopefully that volition yet look bully successful the championship.”

“I deliberation I learned that done my inferior vocation and my aboriginal years successful Formula 1 – you request clip distant from Formula 1. Because different it tin get beauteous exhausting precise quickly, and that’s inactive precisely the aforesaid now.”

Piastri and his preparation

Oscar stressed that helium has already recovered the champion mode to hole for races and however to beryllium successful the champion intelligence state.

“Even though it’s a small antithetic present due to the fact that I’m warring for the title and worldly similar that, I deliberation I’ve already learned the lessons of however to relation champion and however to travel to each contention play fresh,” helium explains.

“Honestly, I bask this position. It’s rather amusive trying to triumph races and combat for the title. And close now, the unit is nary different.”

“I conscionable effort to bash my champion connected the track. The lone quality is that present it means warring for the win, whereas earlier I was warring for the podium oregon points, similar a mates of years ago.”