Oscar Piastri proved he’s a person of his phrase when he did the ‘griddy’ dance after successful the Miami Grand Prix. The Australian, who took residence his third consecutive victory and widened his championship lead over teammate Lando Norris, made a guess with Minnesota Vikings extensive receiver, Justin Jefferson earlier within the week.
“It was an try at a griddy. As you’ll be able to inform, poorly executed,” he informed reporters after doing the viral dance transfer in parc fermé. “I met Justin Jefferson on Thursday who has primarily made the griddy world well-known and I stupidly made a guess with him that if I received the race I’d do one for him,” Piastri defined.
After qualifying fourth, the 24-year-old didn’t count on to be standing on the highest step of the rostrum, so he didn’t observe the dance. “After qualifying yesterday … I believed that it was positively not going to be wanted,” he mentioned. “In order that was my first try at a griddy stay on world TV. I stayed true to the guess however that’s the one and solely time you’re doing to see me doing that.”
Jefferson was fast to react to the clip of Piastri doing the dance transfer, writing on X, “OSCARRRRRR!!! LETS GOOOOO.” It comes a few days after the NFL participant visited Onerous Rock Stadium, and did a sizzling lap with the McLaren driver. “Nobody has ever accomplished it in racing. You will be the primary one,” Jefferson mentioned after instructing Piastri his notorious post-touchdown celebration. “Effectively if I do it this weekend, I will do it for you,” Piastri replied.
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