Oscar Piastri says the strain of preventing for the System 1 championship is much like his junior titles, however his previous successes have proven him there’s “not a magic components” to successful.
Lando Norris gained back-to-back races in Austria and Silverstone to chop Piastri’s lead on the high of the standings to simply eight factors, however the Australian retains the benefit having led the best way since Saudi Arabia in April. Already preventing for a title in simply his third season in F1, Piastri says his run of three championships in a row – in System Renault in 2019, F3 in 2020 and F2 in 2021 – supply him beneficial expertise.
“It’s kind of of a unique state of affairs as a result of the season is so lengthy in System 1, and I feel if my championships in my junior profession taught me something it is that there is not a technique of going about it,” Piastri advised RACER. “I’d say all three that I gained have been in fairly other ways.
“I would say System Renault I used to be fast however made fairly a couple of errors. F3 possibly missing a little bit little bit of final tempo however very very constant and all the time there once I wanted to be. F2 thankfully was form of a mixture of the consistency and tempo, however there’s not a magic components to the way you win a championship.
“So I really feel like I’ve tried to take the teachings from that and positively consistency is a large a part of that for positive. However in the end it’s essential to be constantly quick and taking dangers when it’s essential to and I feel that is the place it is a balancing act. However I feel from a strain standpoint it feels fairly acquainted in order that aspect of issues might be probably the most comparable.”
Piastri usually confronted opposition from teammates in junior classes and this season is once more turning into an intra-team battle at McLaren, with the 24-year-old seeing benefits and drawbacks to the state of affairs.
“I feel in some methods it makes it simpler as a result of you possibly can see what your opponent’s doing. You already know what they’re doing with the automotive, you understand how they’re driving the automotive, so you’ve got much more perception in some methods. However it additionally makes it harder as a result of that clearly goes the opposite approach as properly.
“I feel the opposite factor that makes it tough is clearly in terms of races and technique, clearly solely one in every of you possibly can pit on the identical time, or each of you possibly can pit on the identical time, however one in every of you goes to lose so much. In order that’s one other factor that turns into tough to handle for the workforce, extra so than the drivers.
“However there’s positives and negatives of getting that battle inside the identical workforce. I feel we do an excellent job of managing it as a result of we have seen previously it may be a reasonably tough state of affairs to handle.
“So I feel it isn’t all the time been clean crusing, however I feel our approach of having the ability to recover from these bumps or these hurdles is what will set us up for long-term success.”
