{"id":333149,"date":"2025-12-07T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333149\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T16:53:08","slug":"nico-rosberg-criticises-zak-brown-for-lack-of-oscar-piastri-empathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333149\/","title":{"rendered":"Nico Rosberg criticises Zak Brown for lack of Oscar Piastri ’empathy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg<\/a> has criticised McLaren boss Zak Brown for lacking “empathy” when addressing Oscar Piastri<\/a> after he lost out on the Formula 1 drivers’ title on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Piastri, who had an outside shot at the championship heading into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, finished second in the race and third in the championship — and appeared despondent on team radio while being consoled by his race engineeer.<\/p>\n

McLaren CEO Brown, who had just enthusiastically congratulated Lando Norris<\/a> for his title victory, interrupted that conversation to say: “What a season, what a season. You’re a star. Seven wins. We love ya. We’ll do it again next year. Thank you Oscar for everything you’ve done. What a year.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Oscar, very proud of you. Awesome. What a team player. We go again next year. See you on the podium.”<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri and McLaren boss Zak Brown pictured after qualifying in Abu Dhabi.\u00a0Kym Illman\/Getty ImagesEditor’s Picks<\/p>\n

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Rosberg, who won the 2016 F1 title in Abu Dhabi, said Brown should have chosen a different tone on such a difficult day for Piastri.<\/p>\n

“That’s his most horrible moment in his racing career,” Rosberg said on Sky Sports F1.<\/p>\n

“Maybe Zak could have had a little more empathy there, rather than celebrating.<\/p>\n

“He could have said ‘next year will be your year,’ but it’s difficult for Zak because he’s so ecstatic at the same time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg has criticised McLaren boss Zak Brown for lacking “empathy” when addressing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-333149","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\/333149","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=333149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}