Hungaroring<\/a>, Piastri took a moment to reflect on how he feels that he has changed one year on from that milestone moment.<\/p>\n\u201c[I\u2019ve been] developing a little bit in a lot of areas,\u201d Piastri explained. \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. But there were a lot of average and sometimes bad days in between.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year has been full of a lot more good days. I 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.<\/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. Being able to execute what I think is my best more and more often, that’s been the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another change since the mid-season point in 2024 is that Piastri leads the championship this time around, meaning that he will continue to face a battle with team mate Norris to claim the title during the second half of the campaign.<\/p>\n
In terms of what the defining factor might be regarding who will come out on top between the two drivers, Piastri said: \u201cThe way you win races at the back end of the season is the same way as at the start.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to be faster than everyone around you and you need to make the least mistakes possible. That aspect doesn’t really change. Like I said, it’s great to be consistent, but if you’re consistently being beaten, that’s not a recipe for a championship. It’s a balancing act of both.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, if you’re a robot, you’d be able to be as fast as possible and make zero mistakes, but we’re all humans, so that’s not possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is going to be an element of minimising mistakes, but you need to be fast at the same time, and you can’t afford to sit back. If you try to take that approach, you’ll end up being beaten.\u201d<\/p>\n
After F1\u2019s traditional summer break, the season will resume with the Dutch Grand Prix<\/a> across the weekend of August 29-31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has been reflecting on how he has changed in the 12 months since he claimed his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}