Oscar Piastri has suggested Max Verstappen is the \u201cperfect example\u201d of a driver who didn’t need to win championships to prove he was ready for F1.<\/p>\n
Verstappen had a very short junior career following his progression from karting success, as he raced just one year in single-seaters before his progression to F1.<\/p>\n
Piastri, meanwhile, had a more traditional route to the a spot on the grid as he climbed the ladder and enjoyed various title successes, including back-to-back F3 and F2 titles.<\/p>\n
Having narrowly missed out on adding the F1 championship trophy to his personal cabinet last month in Abu Dhabi, Piastri stated the emotions that come with an F1 title fight are similar to those he experienced during his junior career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there are similarities, yes,\u201d Piastri told media including RacingNews365. \u201cThe emotions you feel are more or less the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think what\u2019s different in F1, when I compare it to the junior championships, is the length. The longest junior championship I had was 10 rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one has been two and a half times that. The duration you have to live through is much more.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy F2 season, for example, was eight rounds. So I think that part is quite different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Verstappen’s sole season in the European Formula 3 Championship saw him end the year in third place, with current F1 rival Esteban Ocon sealing the title.<\/p>\n
But Piastri pointed to the Dutchman as an example of junior titles not counting for everything when it comes to F1 potential.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the junior categories, you obviously want to win the championship, but you\u2019re trying to make your case for why you should be in F1,\u201d Piastri said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve seen through the years \u2014 Max is probably the perfect example \u2014 you don\u2019t need to win championships to demonstrate your capabilities for F1.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhereas when you get to F1, there\u2019s nothing more than becoming champion. So that aspect is a bit different, but, yeah, there are also some similarities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has suggested Max Verstappen is the \u201cperfect example\u201d of a driver who didn’t need to win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-394826","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-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394826","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=394826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}