Oscar Piastri just lately traded in his McLaren Method 1 automobile for the world of Australian V8 Supercars. Returning to his Aussie roots, the 24-year-old joined fellow countryman and Supercars driver and 18-time race winner Cam Waters.
“To be trustworthy, I most likely watched the V8s greater than I watched F1 as a result of the time distinction was loads kinder. Used to look at the drag races right here with my dad,” Piastri revealed.
The trackday introduced a novel studying curve for the F1 driver, who admitted he initially had “no thought how the automobile works or the place the monitor goes.”
After his first few laps in Waters’ equipment, Piastri was inspired to “take a bit extra kerb” after “being very well mannered”. He shortly took on the problem and kerb-hopped the Ford Mustang leading to smiles from these watching.
“It’s good enjoyable. Good to drive one thing new. First time driving a race automobile with a roof on it,” Piastri stated.
Piastri turned his shaky begin to the 2026 F1 season round with a second-place end on the Japanese Grand Prix. The race on the Suzuka circuit was Piastri’s first grand prix begin of the 12 months after he crashed on the reconnaissance lap in Australia and confronted {an electrical} problem forward of his Chinese language marketing campaign.
“Within the race, yeah, there wasn’t something extra we may have performed,” he stated after the race.
Oscar Piastri, McLaren
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“We bought a very good begin, the tempo was good, I felt like I used to be strategic or sensible with how I used the increase and the way I managed that aspect of racing.
“Our technique was good, we didn’t blink too early. Clearly, the security automobile was a disgrace, however I feel as race weekends go we couldn’t have performed any higher than that. So yeah, for me I’m very pleased with the efficiency that I put in, very pleased with the efficiency from the entire group.
“Clearly, we’ve nonetheless bought some, firstly, efficiency to search out, but in addition Lando’s aspect of the storage was a fairly interrupted weekend with all the problems, and clearly the beginning of the season has not been simple for us with reliability, so we’ve bought a protracted approach to go.
“However yeah, I feel we confirmed that if we get all the things pretty much as good as we are able to get it, then we are able to trigger a couple of complications.”
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