Mark Webber challenged Oscar Piastri to \u201cfind that character\u201d required to mount a World Championship fightback against Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Piastri fell 24 points behind his McLaren teammate after crashing out of the Sprint at Interlagos on Saturday, before a 10-second penalty in the race saw him need to mount a comeback to fifth place, with Norris winning both events in Brazil.<\/p>\n
Mark Webber: Oscar Piastri not \u2018low on motivation\u2019 despite \u2018tough run\u2019<\/p>\n
Having led the standings for much of the season, Norris has managed to more-than-double Piastri\u2019s points total in the last six races, the Briton out-scoring the Australian by 115 points to 57 since Norris retired at the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The tide has turned on track in Norris\u2019 favour courtesy of a string of victories and podiums, while Piastri is now without a podium finish in the last five races.<\/p>\n
Former Red Bull driver Webber, now Piastri<\/a>\u2018s manager, assured that behind the scenes, his client has all the motivation required to get back into the fight with Norris.<\/p>\n With the young Australian now having gathered Formula 1 experience, though, Webber explained it is on the driver himself to ultimately extract the most he can from every race weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, get him turned around,\u201d Webber told Channel 4 when asked how he will work with Piastri after this latest result.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s low on motivation, put it that way. He\u2019s had a tough run, but this is about character, about finding those deep motivations that you need at this point to come back.<\/p>\n More post-race analysis from the Sao Paulo Grand Prix<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0Brazil GP conclusions: Key Norris change, Max\u2019s big fight, latest Piastri SOS, new Ferrari solution<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0Brazilian Grand Prix driver ratings: Verstappen breaks the scale; Hamilton horror<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cYou know, this is his third year in F1, so he\u2019s got to find that character to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n While following Norris in second place at Interlagos, news came through that Piastri had been handed a 10-second penalty for his role in a restart collision, when he tagged Mercedes\u2019 Kimi Antonelli, who in turn slid into the helpless Charles Leclerc, who was forced to retire from the race.<\/p>\n