2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg believes Oscar Piastri has \u201cno weaknesses\u201d in the ongoing title fight, a prospect that is \u201cscary\u201d for McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Piastri holds a 16-point lead over Norris in the battle for the championship, a margin he extended following his victory at the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend.<\/p>\n
The Australian has taken a notable step forward this year, having been outpaced by Norris across their first two seasons together at McLaren.<\/p>\n
His progression has taken Rosberg by surprise, who suggested Piastri is better equipped to win the title this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cOscar is super strong. He has surprised me,\u201d Rosberg told the Sky F1 podcast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all knew he was a great driver, but last year, Lando still had the edge. This year, Oscar is just incredibly solid, strong and fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are no weaknesses there, which is a bit scary for Lando, because Lando does have weaknesses.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri took his sixth win of the season last weekend at Spa-Francorchamps after completing an early-race overtake on his team-mate in wet conditions.<\/p>\n
In the latter stages of the grand prix, Norris closed in on Piastri, but a handful of mistakes hurt his pursuit.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saw them [mistakes] again in Spa, you saw them at the restart,\u201d Rosberg added. \u201cHe made three big mistakes in trying to catch Oscar, three times.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was off in Pouhon, he locked up in the Turn 1 and there\u2019s another one that I can\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were three major mistakes which cost him up to four seconds of race time, which was exactly the difference between having a shot at fighting for the win in the last lap of the race or not.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s always his weakness. He keeps on making little mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really impressive what Oscar is doing, and not easy for Lando to not easy to win this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg believes Oscar Piastri has \u201cno weaknesses\u201d in the ongoing title fight, a prospect…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-34924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34924","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=34924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}