Piastri “a bit more pushy” at McLaren, but won’t give engineers orders

Oscar Piastri has fine-tuned how he works with the McLaren workforce and is ‘not afraid to be a bit extra pushy’ having accomplished his second marketing campaign in Method 1.

Piastri performed a key function in McLaren’s world constructors’ title in his sophomore season, scoring two grand prix wins and eight podiums, with a streak of 12 top-five finishes in 13 rounds in the course of the yr.

The 23-year-old has additionally been rising off the monitor, studying to take extra management when working with the squad’s engineers – however not overstepping his authority.

Requested by Autosport in an unique interview if he performed an even bigger function in pushing and motivating the workforce in 2024, Piastri replied: “I’d say not in my manner or the way in which I am working with the workforce. Possibly I do know a bit bit extra of what I would like from the workforce or from the automobile, however I feel for the big half it’s totally, very comparable.

“I am actually not now in my second yr telling the aerodynamicists easy methods to design the automobile and stuff like that. I am nonetheless making an attempt to offer the identical useful suggestions the place I can.

“Possibly now that I do know some extra folks, I am not as afraid to be a bit extra pushy in what I ask for. However I’ve actually not modified my character from yr to yr. That simply comes with expertise, and one of the simplest ways I can assist is by making an attempt to do my greatest each weekend.”

Lando Norris, McLaren F1 Workforce, 1st place, Oscar Piastri, McLaren F1 Workforce, the McLaren workforce rejoice securing the Constructors Championship title

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Piastri can also be happy together with his working relationship with Lando Norris, because the McLaren drivers are set to workforce up once more in 2025 and 2026.

“I feel a part of why we have had a lot success in going ahead is that Lando and I work very effectively collectively on that sort of factor,” the Australian added. “We’ve got all the time wished very comparable issues from the automobile. So I feel that is very helpful for the workforce.

“So long as we maintain saying the identical issues then, whereas it implies that we’re nonetheless not on prime of them, [it] additionally [means] that we’re nonetheless working very a lot in the identical wavelength.”