Former F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has suggested Oscar Piastri could seek an exit from McLaren if he fails to win the title this year.<\/p>\n
Piastri currently sits 24 points down on team-mate Lando Norris with three rounds remaining in the championship.<\/p>\n
The Australian has endured a challenging run of results of late, which saw a 34-point margin over Norris after the Dutch Grand Prix wiped out in the events that followed.<\/p>\n
Piastri has noted he has been forced to drive the car in a different style at the last three grands prix compared to the rest of the year.<\/p>\n
Despite signing a long-term extension with McLaren earlier in the campaign, Steiner has advised Piastri to seek an exit from McLaren should he fail to win the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially if he doesn’t win the championship, I think he has got a good chance to get in any other good car,\u201d Steiner told The Red Flags podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s a good driver and change sometimes is good. He’s young enough, he can adapt to it. He should and I think he will. That’s my opinion.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just needs to regroup over the winter and come back stronger than before.<\/p>\n
\u201cOtherwise, if he doesn\u2019t come back stronger, I think the best for him is that he changes teams then. But he could come back because I still rate him highly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also in the hunt for the title is Max Verstappen, who is further adrift with a 49-point gap to leader Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Despite the large deficit, Steiner still sees Verstappen as a contender for the championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys saw what happened at hte last four races,\u201d Steiner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not? He continues to do it. If you say Oscar is now destroyed mentally, then Max will be ahead of him, absolutely.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax is motivated, as we\u2019ve seen in Brazil. He didn\u2019t give up after a crappy qualifying. He rolls his sleeves up and made it better and finished on the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 team principal Guenther Steiner has suggested Oscar Piastri could seek an exit from McLaren if he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-286107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286107","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=286107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}