Guenther Steiner has dropped an Oscar Piastri bombshell after describing the Australian\u2019s performance in Mexico as \u201cnot good enough\u201d to win the world championship.<\/p>\n
Steiner\u2019s comments come following a tough run of races that have seen Piastri fall a point behind McLaren teammate Lando Norris with four races remaining in this year\u2019s season.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri branded \u2018not good enough to be world champion\u2019 after Mexican GP<\/p>\n
Piastri and Norris have been locked in battle for the world championship throughout much of the F1 2025 campaign.<\/p>\n
The Australian headed the competition from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix until Norris\u2019 victory in Mexico last time out, prompting Steiner to make a bold observation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t good enough to be world champion,\u201d the former Haas boss said of Piastri\u2019s Mexico City GP performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s struggling now, and I don\u2019t know what exactly is happening, but one of the things I could conclude out of it is that, you know Oscar being, you know, he doesn\u2019t get support from the team to win the championship, you lose a little bit your mojo.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\ud83d\udc49 Oscar Piastri driving \u2018very differently\u2019 to address \u2018strange\u2019 issue<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 What\u2019s happened to Oscar Piastri?<\/a><\/p>\n Steiner noted that Piastri came into the F1 2025 campaign without any pressure.<\/p>\n Norris had challenged Max Verstappen for the title last year, making him the unofficial team leader at McLaren.<\/p>\n Without that weight of expectation, he reasoned, Piastri was able to perform, chalking up four wins in five races from China to Miami, and five wins in eight starts to Spain.<\/p>\n But since F1 returned from its mid-season break, however, there\u2019s been just a single victory in Zandvoort and a third place in Italy.<\/p>\n Piastri also chalked up his first retirement since his rookie campaign in Azerbaijan. Add in McLaren\u2019s efforts at equality, and Steiner suggests it\u2019s hurt the Aussie.<\/p>\n \u201cI think with all these papaya rules, I don\u2019t remember them all \u2013 when they let him pass, let him go, you go, I go\u2026 In the end, I think he lost a bit of confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cQualifying, you\u2019re out there on your own, it\u2019s just difficult. He didn\u2019t have a good lap. You start in Mexico where he started, you haven\u2019t got a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n Piastri qualified eighth fastest in Mexico but lined up seventh thanks to a grid penalty for Carlos Sainz meant he started seventh.<\/p>\n From there, he raced forward to finish fifth, just 1.1s away from Oliver Bearman in fourth.<\/p>\n With Norris winning the race, it saw Piastri cede the championship lead to his teammate, the Brit a single point clear into the Sao Paulo Grand Prix this weekend.<\/p>\n