Oscar Piastri has described the feeling of leading the F1 drivers’ championship as \u201cfamiliar territory\u201d.<\/p>\n
McLaren has risen to the forefront of the F1 pecking order this season, winning nine of the 12 races staged so far.<\/p>\n
Piastri has triumphed on five of those occasions, aiding his progress to the head of the drivers’ standings ahead of team-mate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
The Australian is only in his third campaign, but enjoyed a successful junior career en route to F1.<\/p>\n
After winning titles at Formula 3 and Formula 2 level, Piastri insisted that heading the F1 standings holds no different weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels pretty familar, to be honest,\u201d Piastri told the media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the championships I have won in my junior career have all been in different ways, so I don\u2019t think there\u2019s kind of one way of going about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve learned lessons from every year I\u2019ve gone racing [and] the championships I\u2019ve won as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel that different in all honesty. I\u2019ve just been trying to keep the same approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
With 12 races done and 12 remaining on the schedule, Piastri holds an eight-point lead over Norris.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old acknowledged it is still all to play for in the title battle as the second half of the campaign approaches.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re still quite early in the year so there\u2019s still a lot to go on and a lot to happen,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it feels like pretty familiar territory from where I have been in my career so I\u2019m not really treating it any differently.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has described the feeling of leading the F1 drivers’ championship as \u201cfamiliar territory\u201d. McLaren has risen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}