{"id":332903,"date":"2025-12-07T14:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:14:13","slug":"oscar-piastri-starts-from-third-as-he-fights-lando-norris-and-max-verstappen-for-the-world-championship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332903\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri starts from third as he fights Lando Norris and Max Verstappen for the world championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sky commentators, particularly Martin Brundle, are full of praise for Oscar Piastri\u2019s first-lap stunner on his own teammate, Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was it perfectly clean, it was perfectly executed.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Piastri, unlike Norris and race leader Max Verstappen, is on an entirely different tyre strategy \u2013 he\u2019s started on the hard rubber.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri\u2019s early move on Lando Norris.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b478b9cea3468c67cbbe60f5477014fcf42e4456.jpeg\" height=\"390\" width=\"584\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri\u2019s early move on Lando Norris.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>That actually makes his overtake all the more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>But was it a ploy all along?<\/p>\n<p>McLaren have just asked Piastri to speed up so Norris doesn\u2019t get stuck in his dirty air and fall into the clutches of Charles Leclerc in fourth. Remember: If Norris finishes fourth or worse, and Verstappen wins the race, Verstappen wins the crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sky commentators, particularly Martin Brundle, are full of praise for Oscar Piastri\u2019s first-lap stunner on his own&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332903","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=332903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}