Jacques Villeneuve has shared some perception into how Oscar Piastri might be feeling after lacking out on the championship title regardless of main the drivers’ standings earlier within the season.
The Australian driver was main the standings with a nine-point benefit over his team-mate Lando Norris heading into the summer time break. Whereas he received the Dutch Grand Prix and secured a third-place end on the Italian Grand Prix, the 24-year-old driver then suffered six race weekends with no grand prix podium.
A really late-season surge resulted in two second-place finishes within the ultimate two races of the season – the Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix.
Finally, Piastri walked away from the 2025 season in third place within the drivers’ standings. Norris claimed his first championship title and Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen took second.
“Horrible. He should be feeling horrible as a result of he had the championship in hand,” the 1997 Method 1 champion Villeneuve mentioned in the course of the Excessive Efficiency podcast.
“He was controlling it and all of it disappeared and by the point he realised it was disappearing it was too late to react. He acquired pace within the final two races nevertheless it was too late. It was simply method too late.”
Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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McLaren left each drivers to battle it out for the championship title, permitting them to race freely on observe with the one provision that they didn’t crash into each other. The ‘papaya guidelines’ got here beneath a whole lot of scrutiny in the course of the yr, however the Woking outfit caught to its weapons to the top of the season.
“He may really feel like that,” Villeneuve added when requested if Piastri may really feel that he had obtained unfair therapy from the crew.
“Some individuals is perhaps speaking in his ear, say, ‘Hey, you see the crew did not make it easier to. They went flawed.’ However that is not the reality. It is a massive crew, they did not make one automotive slower. There was no work achieved that method. Finally, they wished to be world champions with both driver.
“Piastri is that this new upcoming younger driver, nice picture if he wins. Norris is there for some time, been working with the crew. So both would have been good, however finally he may begin pondering like this and may begin believing it, however that will be far-fetched.”
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