Oscar Piastri has rejected the idea that he will be partly looking to get justice for manager Mark Webber in this weekend\u2019s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, deeming racing drivers \u201cselfish people\u201d.<\/p>\n
Piastri is the clear outsider in F1\u2019s title-deciding season finale, with the Australian sitting third in the standings and 16 points adrift of McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
To become the first Australian world champion since Alan Jones in 1980, Piastri must finish first or second and hope bad luck strikes both Norris and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
However, history is on Piastri\u2019s side, with the last two title deciders featuring more than two drivers having been won by the driver in third.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen secured a shock drivers\u2019 title after entering the final round third in the standings, with S\u00e9bastien Vettel achieving the same in 2010.<\/p>\n
The 2010 title decider was between four drivers, one of whom was Webber, Piastri\u2019s current manager. No part of Piastri is seeking retribution for Webber\u2019s title defeat.<\/p>\n
Asked if part of his push for the title in Abu Dhabi would be to get justice for Webber, Piastri said: “No. I think for me, I\u2019m trying to do it for myself. Ultimately, as racing drivers, we\u2019re pretty selfish people most of the time.<\/p>\n
“And ultimately, we\u2019re the only ones in the car, doing it for our own personal pride. Obviously, there are a lot of people along the journey \u2014 your family, your friends, managers, whoever it might be, people that supported you.<\/p>\n
“But ultimately, you start out in this sport because you want to do it for yourself. So yeah, that\u2019s first and foremost.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019m sure Mark would love to see me win, obviously. But yeah, there are no kinds of thoughts about paying that back or anything like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has rejected the idea that he will be partly looking to get justice for manager Mark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-331036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331036","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=331036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}