{"id":87502,"date":"2025-08-23T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87502\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T13:29:07","slug":"oscar-piastri-shares-the-unusual-trait-that-all-20-formula-1-drivers-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87502\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri shares the unusual trait that all 20 Formula 1 drivers have in common"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Oscar Piastri is in with a brilliant chance of claiming his maiden World Championship with McLaren this season.<\/p>\n

The Australian is currently leading teammate Lando Norris<\/a> by nine points at the top of the standings, with Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen<\/a> a further 97 points back in third.<\/p>\n

Piastri has looked the calmer McLaren driver<\/a> throughout much of the campaign so far, as reflected by his season-leading six race wins.<\/p>\n

\"OscarPhoto by Marcel van Dorst\/EYE4images\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

However, the Australian has revealed that there is one interesting trait he shares with Norris, as well as the other 18 drivers on the Formula 1<\/a> grid.<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri reveals that all Formula 1 drivers blink \u2018in basically the same spot around a lap\u2019<\/p>\n

In a video recorded with McLaren\u2019s social media team, Piastri analysed how and where Formula 1 drivers blink when driving on track, including the consequent distance they cover with their eyes closed.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old explained, \u201cBasically, all racing drivers blink in almost the same spot around a lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou obviously don\u2019t really want to blink when you\u2019re in a corner, especially when you\u2019re pulling high [g-forces]. So, you normally try and blink on the straight.<\/p>\n

Piastri<\/a> then calculated that a single blink while travelling at 200km\/h equates to travelling 14 metres with your eyes closed.<\/p>\n

The former F2 champion then added: \u201cI feel like on a qualifying lap, you wouldn\u2019t blink very much, but in a race lap, probably a bit, so I\u2019m going to say [blinking] five times a lap, so I reckon you would cover 70 metres a lap with your eyes shut.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri is ten races away from making Formula 1 history<\/p>\n

Such has been the dominance of McLaren this season that only Norris stands in Piastri\u2019s way of a maiden Drivers\u2019 Title.<\/p>\n

While the gap between the Papaya pair is close, Piastri should take great confidence from the fact that he has often had the upper hand on his teammate in both qualifying and races this year.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the Australian has arguably been the grid\u2019s standout and most consistent performer this season, with Piastri claiming numerous records<\/a> as a result.<\/p>\n

Should he maintain his gap to Norris after the summer break, he would then set the best record of them all, becoming just Australia\u2019s third ever Formula 1 World Champion, and their first since Alan Jones in 1980.<\/p>\n

While this might place added pressure on the young man\u2019s shoulders, it should also give him greater motivation to get the job done and cement his place in the sport\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri is in with a brilliant chance of claiming his maiden World Championship with McLaren this season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,1470,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-87502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87502","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=87502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}