{"id":95520,"date":"2025-08-25T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95520\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:24:08","slug":"some-emotions-come-back-when-webber-gives-title-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95520\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Some emotions come back’ when Webber gives title advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> enters this weekend\u2019s Dutch GP with a nine-point advantage over teammate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n

The Australian can be credited with a strong recovery after the first round in Melbourne, where a spin relegated him down the order \u2013 finishing in a lowly 9th.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Piastri has lost some ground to Norris in recent Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Fine margins have denied the 24-year-old victories in Austria, Silverstone and Hungary. In such a close fight, these margins could make the difference.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Piastri has shown a cool head in both moments of difficulty and success.<\/p>\n

The Australian attributes some of his composure<\/a> and big-picture thinking to the advice of his manager, Mark Webber.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mark Webber and Oscar Piastri, McLaren F1 Team, in the garage
\nPiastri thankful to have Webber in his corner<\/p>\n

Whilst drivers are obviously the stars in Formula 1, there are many factors that so often decide victory and failure.<\/p>\n

Piastri discovered this even before making his debut, with his manager Mark Webber successfully reaching a deal to join McLaren for the 2023 season.<\/p>\n

At the time, of course, the consensus in the paddock was that Ricciardo would continue with the team.<\/p>\n

Ricciardo himself denied rumours that he was going to be replaced \u2013 only a few weeks before McLaren\u2019s talks with Piastri were made public.<\/p>\n

Regardless, Webber\u2019s role in getting Piastri to join McLaren (and subsequently leaving Alpine<\/a>) have been decisive in the 23-year-old\u2019s career success.<\/p>\n

Before this season began, there were very few who described Piastri as a title favourite.<\/p>\n

Instead, it was Verstappen and Norris<\/a> that were at the centre of discussions in pre-season.<\/p>\n

With that said, Piastri\u2019s mentality since the beginning of the season has been razor-focused.<\/p>\n

The Australian\u2019s mentality has been praised by the likes of Alain Prost<\/a>, showing no signs of agitation throughout the year.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a recent interview<\/a>, Piastri outlined the important role that Webber plays in his approach:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is very useful having Mark around. He\u2019s obviously been in a title battle himself like this.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I think there\u2019s probably some emotions coming back, I guess.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe advice is very useful. Not just in the championship battle, it\u2019s been useful from the moment we\u2019ve been working together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot of specifics from fighting for a championship that are a bit different when you\u2019re not. So the advice has been very useful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve also been able to lean on my own experiences in the junior categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a bit different in Formula 1, but I\u2019ve been able to lean on that as well. So yeah, Mark\u2019s been very helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Oscar Piastri, McLaren, 1st position, with Mark Webber
\nPressure increases in the title fight<\/p>\n

So far this season, neither Piastri or Norris have managed to win three races consecutively.<\/p>\n

Although both drivers have enjoyed stronger patches, momentum has often swung from one side of the garage to the other.<\/p>\n

With such few points separating the McLaren duo, these fluctuations could make the title race impossible to predict until the final round in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

As fewer and fewer rounds remain, a consistent string of races \u2013 or one DNF \u2013 could be decisive.<\/p>\n

Conscious of this, both of Andrea Stella\u2019s driver<\/a>s will enter the second half of the season under even more pressure.<\/p>\n

Any mistake will be difficult to recover from, and could force whoever is trailing in the standings to become more desperate in a bid to recover.<\/p>\n

Main photo: via McLaren media gallery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri enters this weekend\u2019s Dutch GP with a nine-point advantage over teammate Lando Norris. The Australian can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,36899,576,577,590,592,82],"class_list":["post-95520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-2025-season","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95520","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=95520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}