Oscar Piastri has highlighted the biggest difference he has made over the last 12 months to become a leading contender for the world championship.<\/p>\n
In their first two seasons partnered together, Piastri was often out-paced by more experienced team-mate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
However, the Australian has matched Norris this year with the qualifying head-to-head battle at a level 7-7 after the first 14 rounds.<\/p>\n
Piastri has bagged six race wins to Norris’ five so far this year, giving the former a narrow nine-point lead in the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
Comparing his 2025 campaign to his first two seasons in the sport, Piastri stated he has been able to extract more \u201cgood days\u201d this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cDeveloping a little bit in a lot of areas,\u201d Piastri told media including RacingNews365 when asked to describe what has changed over the last 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year, I felt like I had some weekends that were very strong and felt like I had enough to win races on my good days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there were a lot of average and sometimes bad days in between. This year has been full of a lot more good days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri added there is no particular area he has solely focused on, insisting he has fashioned himself into an all-round stronger driver in an effort to win the championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have improved as a driver, but I think I’ve been able to get closer to what I think I’m capable of more often,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s been the biggest thing. It’s not come from one specific area. It’s come from looking at lots of different things.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to execute what I think is my best more and more often, that’s been the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has highlighted the biggest difference he has made over the last 12 months to become a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-68275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275","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=68275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}