{"id":242942,"date":"2025-10-26T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242942\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T23:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T23:30:09","slug":"oscar-piastri-interview-after-losing-drivers-championship-lead-to-lando-norris-at-mexico-grand-prix-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242942\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri interview after losing drivers championship lead to Lando Norris at Mexico Grand Prix, video"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri has revealed there are some \u201cpretty major\u201d changes he needs to make to the way he is driving after a tough weekend in Mexico ended with the Australian losing his lead of the drivers\u2019 championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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McLaren teammate Lando Norris claimed the race win and moved past Piastri in the process, having trailed him by 14 points entering Monday morning. <\/p>\n

Piastri did well to overcome a poor first lap, which saw him fall back to ninth, and ended up settling for fifth position.<\/p>\n

It could have been an even better recovery from the Australian had a virtual safety car not been called on the final two laps, with Oli Bearman squarely in Piastri\u2019s sights before that point. <\/p>\n

Speaking to Sky Sports after the race, Piastri reflected on a tricky weekend which ended with plenty of lessons for the Australian moving forward.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI felt like the whole race I was right behind someone and struggling with the dirty air. That was pretty difficult,\u201d Piastri said. <\/p>\n

\u201cFor me the biggest thing is trying to learn the things I wanted to learn today.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday it became obvious after the session that there was a few things I needed to change pretty majorly in how I was driving.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday was about trying to limit the damage, but also trying to learn some things about that. If I\u2019ve made some progress with that I\u2019ll be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Piastri admitted it has been a \u201cstrange\u201d experience trying to work out what is behind his recent struggles given he has \u201cbeen driving exactly the same that I have all year\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve just had to drive very differently the last couple of weekends \u2013 or I\u2019ve not driven differently when I should have,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that\u2019s been a little bit strange to get my head around because I\u2019ve been driving exactly the same as I have all year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the last couple of weekends the car or the tyres or something required quite a different way of driving. I\u2019ve just not really gone to that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve tried to change it up a bit today and once we analyse if it\u2019s effective or not that will hopefully help see some progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Norris surging up the standings, the pressure is on Piastri and the Australian said that given there haven\u2019t been any major changes to the car his slump has \u201cnothing\u201d to do with that.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven how the pace has differentiated, clearly Lando has found it easier to dial into that and I haven\u2019t,\u201d Piastri added.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember the other 19 races and the way I\u2019ve been driving has been working pretty well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about adding some tools to the toolbox, rather than reinventing myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshalls cross track during Lawson lap | 00:23<\/p>\n

Former F1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve said Piastri had \u201csalvaged\u201d the weekend in Monday\u2019s race but that his deficit to Norris would still be \u201chard to swallow\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s a little bit stressed and drives tight, not comfortable, not smooth and soft, that will take away a little bit as well and he will never find the balance in the car,\u201d Villeneuve said on Sky Sports\u2019 coverage. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, that\u2019s the big issue. He needs to get back into a comfortable, calm zone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sky Sports pundit and British racing driver Jamie Chadwick, meanwhile, said Piastri has \u201clost his momentum\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think at the moment it\u2019s difficult because he\u2019s also always chasing his teammate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not like he\u2019s able to go out there and find performance in himself and put himself out in front and make himself the fastest. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he says there\u2019s things he needed to work on and he needed to improve with the driving, that’s him looking at what Lando\u2019s doing and he\u2019s going, \u2018Right, I need to replicate that\u2019 but that doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s going to be better than that at Lando. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s trying to take the world championship to a driver that has seemingly found a lot of performance recently and these tracks haven\u2019t really suited Oscar it seems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has revealed there are some \u201cpretty major\u201d changes he needs to make to the way he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-242942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242942","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=242942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}