debating the matter in Parliament<\/a>, questioning if McLaren is \u201cbiased\u201d towards Piastri’s team-mate Lando Norris – albeit in a lighthearted discussion.<\/p>\nPiastri admitted it was impressive to see F1 discussed at such a scale as he hailed the support he has been receiving from his home country.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did see it reach Parliament,\u201d Piastri told media including RacingNews365. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s quite impressive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the support from back home has been really special. I obviously don\u2019t see a huge amount of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve not been back to Australia since the grand prix but I think the fact that Formula 1 and regardless of why it was in Parliament, the fact that my name is in Parliament in Australia is pretty cool in some ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA pretty cool thing. And I guess it signifies the magnitude of the support and the following that we’ve had back home.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that’s very, very cool to see, and I\u2019ll try my best to bring it home for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri enters the Abu Dhabi finale third in the standings, behind Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
It was pointed out to the McLaren driver that on the previous two occasions that saw three or more drivers enter the last race in contention for the final, it was the driver third in the standings who came out on top (Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, Sebastian Vettel in 2012).<\/p>\n
Reacting to the strong omen, Piastri said: \u201cNice stat to have, given that I\u2019m in that position.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut just because history has gone that way once doesn\u2019t mean it will again.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I\u2019m certainly not leaning on that, but maybe it gives me the tiniest amount of comfort that it is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has stated it was \u201cpretty cool\u201d to have his name discussed in the Australian Parliament following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328893,"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-328892","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\/328892","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=328892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}