Weeks after his maiden win, Oscar Piastri rues the “missed alternatives” of the opening half of the season, insisting “it might have been even higher”.
Fourth within the standings, forward of Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez, the Australian teenager must be feeling happy with himself, in spite of everything, current occasions suggests he additionally has his skilled teammate rattled.
Nonetheless, regardless of the Hungary win, Piastri believes that there is room for enchancment.
“I feel I’ve made good progress on issues that I wished to enhance from final yr,” he tells Speedcafe. “Among the targets I had from the top of final season, I feel I’ve carried out a very good job of tackling and made clear steps in a few of these areas… I might say all of these areas.
“There’s nonetheless in fact room for enchancment,” he provides, “however I feel it has been a very good step ahead.”
In contrast to final yr, the 2024 McLaren has been aggressive from the get-go.
“I feel the massive factor has been largely optimistic, from each a group viewpoint, and from a private viewpoint,” he says, reflecting on the opening half of the season. “The group have given Lando and I a automotive that is able to successful races.
“The largest optimistic clearly is that we have thrust ourselves into competition with a automotive that is extremely fast,” he provides. “That is actually the largest factor.”
Nonetheless, regardless of being fourth within the standings, on account of plenty of woeful strategic errors, and a few his personal errors, it might have been even higher, as he’s the primary to confess.
“There’s form of the sensation of some missed alternatives with some issues that have been out of our management,” he says. “Like Miami, the observe limits in Austria, I imply, technically that one was in my management, but it surely wasn’t actually given the way it was deleted. After which just a few that have been in our management, Silverstone being the latest one; Canada a bit of bit, to an extent Imola with the qualifying penalty…
“So I feel largely optimistic,” he provides. “However I really feel like there’s potential to do even higher, which is clearly a really thrilling place to be in.”
