{"id":367060,"date":"2025-12-23T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:57:13","slug":"why-oscar-piastri-is-proud-of-2025-season-despite-f1-title-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367060\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oscar Piastri is &#8216;proud&#8217; of 2025 season despite F1 title loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri said he can be \u201cvery proud\u201d of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/series\/single-seater\/formula-1\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1<\/a> season, despite losing the Drivers\u2019 title after having been the clear favourite for much of it.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian was sitting pretty at the top of the Drivers\u2019 standings for a great deal of the year, and was 34 points ahead at the beginning of the final third of the calendar.<\/p>\n<p>But a dip in form, combined with comebacks mounted by Lando Norris and Max Verstappen, saw Piastri ultimately lose out to Norris, finishing third behind him and the Dutchman.<\/p>\n<p>Although the year ended in disappointment for Piastri, it still showed an upward trajectory after his first two years in the sport, his progress starting to show last year with his first victory.<\/p>\n<p>And that is how Piastri took the campaign as a whole, telling media including Motorsport Week after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that he has many positives to take.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/McLaren-F1-Qatar-GP-1-1024x576.webp.webp\" alt=\"McLaren went from a strong position in Qatar to squandering the victory\" class=\"wp-image-231772\"  \/>Oscar Piastri believes his 2025 season was \u201chead and shoulders\u201d above his previous two seasons in F1<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, comparing different parts of different people\u2019s careers is always difficult with different cars and stuff,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren<\/a> driver said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I think definitely I can be very proud of the season I\u2019ve had. When I look at this season compared to my first two years in F1, this year has been head and shoulders above the first two.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, whilst the end result is not quite what I wanted, there\u2019s a lot of optimism and a lot of strength that I\u2019ve gained from proving to myself what I can achieve through this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are the kinds of things that are not necessarily tied to results. So I think for me, I can definitely take that forward into the future. It\u2019s only my third attempt at this in F1. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, I\u2019ve got plenty more to go, but there are definitely lessons from this year that will only make me stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piastri will be hoping for the continuation of his marked improvement in 2026, as Norris defends his world title in the sister papaya car.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportweek.com\/2025\/12\/23\/max-verstappen-delivers-illegal-performance-verdict-after-double-mclaren-dsq-in-f1-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen delivers \u2018illegal performance\u2019 verdict after double McLaren DSQ in F1 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri said he can be \u201cvery proud\u201d of his Formula 1 season, despite losing the Drivers\u2019 title&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,913,2333,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-367060","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-mclaren","14":"tag-oscar-piastri","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367060","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=367060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}