Oscar Piastri has detailed he felt happier behind the wheel in Brazil compared to recent weeks during which his title margin was eroded.<\/p>\n
Lando Norris took over the top of the drivers’ standings last time out in Mexico following a dominant drive to victory, while Piastri could only manage fifth.<\/p>\n
Norris was once again the driver in form on Friday in Brazil as he set the fastest lap during sprint qualifying to secure pole position for Saturday’s race.<\/p>\n
Piastri was third, with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli lodged between the two title contenders.<\/p>\n
Explaining the deficit to his team-mate in S\u00e3o Paulo, Piastri said: \u201cThe soft was just a bit different to what I expected. A couple of big moments on my first lap which wasn’t ideal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a bit of a shame, but ultimately, I felt much happier today than the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cPractice went very well. Sprint qualifying, we changed a few things which took a little bit of getting used to again.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, pretty happy. I would have liked a little bit more but we can definitely fight with what we’ve got and it’s a lot more points on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
With heavy rain on the forecast for Saturday, the shorter race could take place in much different conditions compared to Friday.<\/p>\n
Piastri is hopeful his car can remain competitive in wet weather, should the expected rainfall saturate the circuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be an interesting day,\u201d he said. \u201cLet’s see what weather we get.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll try and take whatever opportunities there are. The pace in the car has been really good, so hopefully that translates to whatever we get.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has detailed he felt happier behind the wheel in Brazil compared to recent weeks during which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270184,"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-270183","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\/270183","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=270183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}