Oscar Piastri compared to Michael Schumacher by the boss of McLaren Andrea Stella in the vote of confidence for the chief of the championship F1 | F1 News
The director of the McLaren team, Andrea Stella, compared the leader of the world championship Oscar Piastri to the seven times Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher while he supported the Australian to bounce back after a weekend filled with errors in Azerbaijan.
Piastri underwent his first DNF of the season after having unusually collapsed from the qualification, then repeated the error on the first round of the Baku City challenge.
The 24 -year -old advance of his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris, was reduced to 25 points, while Max Verstappen won a second successive victory to revive Red Bull hopes that he could make a historic return to win a fifth successive pilot title.
After a weekend, the season resumes this weekend with the Singapore Grand Prix, during which Stella is confident Piastri will return in shape.
“I worked with multi-champion pilots and each season, even the most dominant, even one of the best pilots in the history of Formula 1, like Michael Schumacher, I saw events like this,” said Stella, who was Schumacher’s performance engineer at Ferrari from 2002-2006.
“The events in which you withdraw the most are learning, because things become, for certain reasons, difficult, and as soon as you judge the right -of -way available, you are very punished.
“So, only one-off for what has probably been the strongest pilot of this season, a unique weekend in which things are not going on, and you finally have a lot to revise.
“So, it’s not a surprise, no exception, we have to worry, because it happened to almost all champions, even those with the best history.”
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Speaking on the Podcast F1 Show, Jamie Chadwick is thinking about Oscar Piastri’s “Oscar Piastri weekend” at GP Azerbaijan
After a turn in treacherous wet conditions after a sudden downpour during the opening race of the season in Australia, Piastri had avoided major errors during the following 15 laps.
After finishing ninth in Melbourne, his consistency allowed him to mark 14 podiums in the next 15 races, with a fourth place in Canada the only time he was outside the first three.
Stella reiterated after the race in Baku that he thought that Pitri had already made his mistakes.
“Oscar goes out without points and a lot of learning,” added Stella.
“I have already had a conversation with Oscar and his mind is already fully functional, the treatment, it is already in” This is what I have learned, I look forward to the neighbor “.
SKY SPORTS F1 GP schedule in Singapore
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Return to some of the most dramatic moments that took place at the Singapore Grand Prix
Thursday October 2
12 noon: pilot press conference
3 p.m.: Uncoupped paddock
Friday October 3
8:05 am: F1 Academy Practice
10 am: The Singapore Grand Prix in practice one (the session starts at 10:30 am)
11:55 am: F1 Academy Qualifying
12:40 p.m.: Press conference of team directors
1:45 p.m.: Singapore Grand Prix Practice Deux (the session starts at 2 p.m.)
3:15 p.m.: The F1 show
Saturday October 4
7:55 am: F1 Academy Race 1
10:15 am: Singapore Grand Prix Practical three (the session starts at 10:30 am)
1 p.m.: Singapore Grand Prix Construction of qualification
2 p.m.: Singapore Grand Prix Qualification *
4 p.m.: Ted’s what a notebook
Sunday October 5
8:20 am: F1 Academy Race 2
11:30 am: Grand Prix Sunday: Singapore GP Build-Up
1 p.m.: The Singapore Grand Prix
3 p.m.: Damy flag: Singapore GP reaction
4 p.m.: Ted notebook
* Also on the main event of Sky Sports
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