{"id":197269,"date":"2025-10-08T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197269\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:16:09","slug":"johnny-herbert-believes-oscar-piastri-is-starting-to-crack-in-pressure-of-f1-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197269\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Herbert believes Oscar Piastri is starting to \u2018crack\u2019 in pressure of F1 title race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnny Herbert <\/a>believes Oscar Piastri<\/a> is starting to show \u201ctiny cracks\u201d in his armoury amid the pressure of an F1<\/a> title race.<\/p>\n

Australian racer Piastri, known for his cool-headedness, voiced his anger over team radio<\/a> at his McLaren team after teammate and title rival Lando Norris<\/a> collided with him in the process of a first-lap overtake at the Singapore Grand Prix on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Piastri labelled the move \u201cunfair\u201d and was furious<\/a> when race engineer Tom Stallard informed his driver that McLaren would not intervene or force Norris to give the place back. Norris ended up finishing third, with Piastri in fourth.<\/p>\n

With six races left, Piastri still has a 22-point lead<\/a> over the Briton and 63-point gap over Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen, but ex-F1 driver Herbert says the Australian is showing signs of the \u201cpressure building.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re seeing those little, tiny pressure cracks from Oscar from all his comments,\u201d three-time grand prix winner Herbert said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cool Oscar Piastri that everyone was talking about at the beginning of the season is not there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pressure’s building and when that pressure pot builds in a championship battle, it’s the one who has that stronger mentality, to try and get rid of that negative Singapore result for Oscar, but then have the positivity going into the next race.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri expressed his anger over team radio in Singapore (AP)<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t the perfect result for Lando, but he was ahead of Oscar. It’s come down to 22 points. So, he’s piling the pressure on Oscar, but he’s doing a great job as well. He’s showing his speed once again and they’re both very, close anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

With McLaren wrapping up the constructors\u2019 title in Singapore, Herbert believes the papaya-clad team should now let their drivers race all out for the drivers\u2019 championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is really where they [Piastri and Norris] all show their inner strengths and mental strengths as well,\u201d Herbert said, in association with Betting Lounge<\/a>. \u201cThe key to this is McLaren letting them race because they won the Constructors\u2019 for a second year running which was very impressive, now it’s letting their drivers go.<\/p>\n

The next race is the United States Grand Prix (17-19 October) in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Johnny Herbert believes Oscar Piastri is starting to show \u201ctiny cracks\u201d in his armoury amid the pressure of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,97719,576,577,38259,591,592,91565,82],"class_list":["post-197269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-title-race","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-johnny-herbert","tag-lando-norris","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-singapore-grand-prix","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}