{"id":267819,"date":"2025-11-07T02:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267819\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T02:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T02:17:06","slug":"jos-verstappen-if-i-were-oscar-piastri-id-bang-my-fist-on-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/267819\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos Verstappen: If I were Oscar Piastri, ‘I’d bang my fist on the table’"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAO PAULO — Oscar Piastri<\/a> risks reputational damage if he does not win this year’s Formula 1 world championship, according to title rival Max Verstappen<\/a>‘s father, Jos Verstappen.<\/p>\n

In early September, Piastri appeared to have one hand on the 2025 title, 34 points clear of McLaren teammate Lando Norris<\/a> in a championship he had led for six months.<\/p>\n

That lead has disappeared since, and Piastri has not been on the podium since the controversial Italian Grand Prix, which featured him obeying a team order to let Norris pass for second position after McLaren botched a late pit stop.<\/p>\n

Norris now leads by one point, with Max Verstappen considered a title outsider 36 points back with four races left.<\/p>\n

Jos Verstappen, who was a teammate of F1 legend Michael Schumacher<\/a> in the 1990s, has questioned what has happened to make the Australian’s season unravel so quickly.<\/p>\n

“I find it quite strange what’s happening at McLaren,” Verstappen told Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf. “Piastri can’t have suddenly forgotten how to drive, right? If I were him, or his manager [ex-driver Mark Webber<\/a>], I’d bang my fist on the table internally at least once.<\/p>\n

“Because right now everyone is wondering whether he can handle the pressure, and that’s not good for your reputation … Piastri’s reputation in this case.”<\/p>\n

The sudden turnaround in the championship has spawned plenty of other theories beyond Piastri not being able to handle pressure. Norris was booed<\/a> by fans after winning the Mexican Grand Prix, with local journalists later reasoning that a growing theory among the crowd being that McLaren has favored him over Piastri in recent months.<\/p>\n

McLaren has repeatedly denied those theories and has attempted to keep the intrateam battle between its drivers as fair as possible.<\/p>\n

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Piastri dismissed the suggestion<\/a> of the team being against him during his media availability for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos on Thursday. “No, it’s not the case,” Piastri said directly to a question on conspiracies of McLaren sabotage.<\/p>\n

“I think the last couple of weekends have been a little bit more tricky, but we’ve got pretty clear answers on why that’s the case. There’s not really too many mysteries on what’s happened.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s some questions of why some differences have cropped up in terms of how I need to drive and stuff like that, but yeah, everything is explainable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAO PAULO — Oscar Piastri risks reputational damage if he does not win this year’s Formula 1 world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-267819","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\/267819","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=267819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}