1996 F1 champion Damon Hill has offered an insight into Oscar Piastri’s difficult run of form of late.<\/p>\n
The Australian lost his lead in the drivers’ championship last time out in Mexico City following a dominant drive to victory for team-mate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Piastri obtained the top spot in the standings after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in April and held a lead as big as 34 points just a handful of rounds ago.<\/p>\n
However, Piastri has been consistently outpaced by Norris over the last few races, starting from a disastrous event in Baku where Piastri crashed out on the first lap following a self-inflicted error.<\/p>\n
Providing an explanation for Piastri’s Azerbaijan setback, Hill told the Stay on Track podcast: \u201cI gleaned that from what he said, that he\u2019s analysed it in retrospect, and he sort of said maybe he pushed too hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not in him to push beyond his limits. Up to now, he\u2019s kept it all in check.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri now sits just one point behind Norris in the championship standings with four rounds remaining in the season.<\/p>\n
Hill has suggested that as the season entered its final stages, Piastri became too wrapped up in the thought of getting his hands on the world championship trophy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn interviews, he\u2019s open, but also, he doesn’t say too much and he doesn’t get riled by questions,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n
“There were some questions he’s been getting recently like ‘Do you think you’re losing it?’<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you imagine how you would feel if someone is saying that? And he seems to have coped with that very well, that pressure.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut something happened. I think he’s tripped over this problem with the realisation that you could become world champion and you get that maybe a rush of blood to the head or that over-excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1996 F1 champion Damon Hill has offered an insight into Oscar Piastri’s difficult run of form of late.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254799,"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-262815","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\/262815","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=262815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}