The result has enlivened Verstappen\u2019s longshot title hopes, with McLaren team boss Andrea Stella identifying the Dutchman as a championship threat.<\/p>\n
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Speaking to reporters at the Singapore Grand Prix, Piastri said the result was a reminder of the fragility of his championship lead but believe the lessons from the weekend would stand him in good stead to consolidate his title lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think even disregarding who won the race, we don\u2019t want to have weekends like Baku and we know we can\u2019t afford to have weekends like Baku,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCertainly from my side of things there were some tough lessons to take.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think as a team we recognised a few opportunities from the weekend to try and improve. That\u2019s always an important thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBaku was quite a good reminder of, firstly, how quickly everything can change but also of some of the things that have made the season so successful for me and the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think just trying to stay focused on that will naturally take care of the championship picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those \u201ctough lessons\u201d are clear to Piastri, with obvious mistakes leading to the three big-consequence moments that ended with him in the barriers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lesson from [qualifying] was more just around a street circuit is going to bite hard if you try a bit too hard \u2014 I think qualifying was as simple as that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe jump start \u2014 a combination of factors, I would say, led to that. Then the crash \u2014 I think it\u2019s difficult to remove immediately what went on at the start.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are some lessons about how I can deal with that better and just lessons on risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just putting it down to some mistakes. Obviously it looks quite dramatic because they\u2019re all on the same weekend, but it\u2019s nothing more than that really.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing revolutionary that I think needs to change or that I am going to change \u2014 for 16 of the 17 weekends what I\u2019ve been doing has worked very well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think if I make sure I stay focused on the things that have gone well, then it will continue to go that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
PIT TALK PODCAST: After his disaster in Azerbaijan, can Oscar Piastri bounce back in Singapore to reassert himself as the championship leader?<\/p>\n
The famously ice-cold Australian said he had no trouble putting the disappointment of the weekend behind him given the cause of the errors were so clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was relatively easy to move on from, actually,\u201d he said. \u201cI think in some ways because the mistakes were so obvious.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou leave every weekend trying to find how you can improve, but there are some weekends \u2014 normally the ones that go well \u2014 when it\u2019s a bit more difficult to find where it\u2019s possible to improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cOften the hardest part is finding where to start.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think when the mistakes and the consequences are so obvious, it\u2019s quite easy to find where to look.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, the consequences were bigger and more dramatic, but the process of looking through things has been exactly the same as every weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the reflection on that has been pretty straightforward, and I feel comfortable coming back in now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI certainly haven\u2019t had to dwell on it too much, the lessons are there, but I\u2019ve been able to move on from it quickly and just approach this weekend like any other weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri says his championship campaign can\u2019t afford another messy weekend like Baku as he attempts to move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[13273,1724,64,63,961,52629,106485,22777,70679,118771,117430,817,813,816,1737,118772,825,118770,2119,942,2812,85,118775,31303,21784,118774,118773,12000],"class_list":["post-186205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-andrea-stella","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-azerbaijan","tag-bounce-back","tag-championship-campaign","tag-championship-leader","tag-championship-picture","tag-championship-race-heads","tag-championship-threat","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-long-shot-title-hopes","tag-max-verstappen","tag-obvious-mistakes-leading","tag-pit-talk","tag-singapore","tag-south-eastern-asia","tag-sports","tag-title-campaign","tag-title-hopes","tag-title-lead","tag-tough-lessons","tag-weekend-trying","tag-western-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186205","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=186205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}