“Winning races is what matters to me”

Oscar Piastri is clear that he does not want to get carried away by the emotion now that, for the first time in his short career, he leads the World of Formula 1.

The McLaren pilot heads the classification with 10 points of advantage after having won three of the last four major awards, including the two most recent in Bahrain y Saudi Arabia.

All this despite a bad season start in Melbournewhere during a good part of the race he rolled behind Lando Norris in a provisional 1-2 for McLarenbut ended ninth after a spinning spin.

The 24 -year -old Australian, who faces his third season in F1explained before the Grand Prix of Miami: “What really excites me right now is to win races.”

“I think that leading the championship is fine, but as I said after Arabia, I am much more proud and satisfied with the work we have done and the reasons why we are leading, than from the fact of leading the World Cup.”

“Especially taking into account that in Melbourne It was not good at the points level. I think we executed the race well, but I started with some disadvantage and I have managed to overcome. And that is what I am enjoying most: the reasons why we are above. “

Piastri is already considered the favorite to this year’s title, despite the fact that this role seemed reserved for Norris at the beginning of the season.

But since the Briton won from pole in Melbourneits performance has fallen, without adapting completely to the Mcl39.

Plate He does not believe that this is due to a specific pilot style that favors the car, but to the ability to squeeze it to the maximum according to each circuit:

“The car is an evolution of last year. There are new things, but many continue to work the same as then,” he explained.

“For my part, I feel that I have taken a step forward in all aspects. I have not focused on improving a specific thing since last year, but on finding those last hundredths of a second, wherever they are.

“And that is making a difference. I have still lost some poles for a few hundredths, so I have work to do, but I think that is the big difference with respect to last year.”

That improvement has allowed Plate overcome Norris In classification in three of the five weekends of Grand Prix in 2025. While the British adds a victory, Piastri already has three.

The other Grand Prix was won by Max Verstappen in Japan. The Red Bull pilot is third in the championship, 12 points from Plate.