Steiner confident Piastri will bounce back after Baku

Oscar Piastri had 1 of the toughest weekends of his vocation successful Baku, but erstwhile Haas brag Guenther Steiner is assured the Australian volition instrumentality to signifier quickly. The young McLaren driver, who leads the wide standings and is warring for his archetypal satellite title title, ended the contention successful the archetypal thigh aft a incorrect start, fell to the backmost and deed the wall. His awesome streak of 44 consecutive finishes, the 2nd longest successful modern F1, was ended.

Steiner pointed retired successful the Red Flags podcast that determination is nary crushed to panic. 

"It's conscionable 1 atrocious weekend. It happens. All mean radical person atrocious days. Oscar had one, and that's it. I deliberation he'll bounce backmost precise quickly, astir forgotten," Steiner said.

Piastri was the lone operator successful 2024 to decorativeness each contention and session, truthful the Baku incidental was unusual. It was lone his 4th status successful 63 appearances and the archetypal clip helium ended up successful the partition alone. Steiner added humor: 

"Maybe helium conscionable wanted to ticker the contention from that chair. A child's dream, that's however helium made it travel true."

The problems started already connected Friday owed to method difficulties. He touched the partition respective times successful qualifying, and finished ninth astatine the start, which accrued the hazard successful the race. 

"He made a mistake and past misjudged the braking due to the fact that helium wanted excessively much, excessively fast. It each started successful qualifying," explained Steiner.

Piastri's benignant of driving

When asked if Piastri is driving much cautiously present to sphere his 25-point pb implicit Lando Norris, Steiner dismisses that theory: 

"He wasn't driving defensively. He attacked and made a mistake. Maybe helium wanted to get backmost the points that Lando lost."

Steiner reminds that this is lone a infinitesimal successful the play and that existent champions physique their spot connected trials similar this. Piastri has shown composure and consistency truthful far. "One atrocious play isn't going to alteration the large picture. He's got it retired of his strategy and he's moving on," Steiner concluded.

There are inactive 7 weekends and 3 sprints near successful the championship, and McLaren fans anticipation that Steiner's prediction volition beryllium close and that the Australian volition proceed his combat for the archetypal title.