Oscar Piastri dismisses Jos Verstappen’s McLaren remarks, says his F1 title confidence remains firm ahead of the Sao Paulo GP

The Beginning

Oscar Piastri is super brave and he’s not giving up! The race car driver from McLaren team talked back to Jos Verstappen who said some things about him. 

Oscar lost his first place spot to his teammate Lando Norris at the Mexico City race, but guess what? He’s not even worried! The boy from Australia is only one point behind Norris now and he’s ready to race hard at Sao Paulo GP.

What Jos Verstappen Told Everyone About Piastri

Jos Verstappen said some stuff to a newspaper in Holland called De Telegraaf. He thought it was really weird that Piastri wasn’t doing as good lately. Jos is Max Verstappen’s dad and Max is the champion! Jos said if he was Piastri or his helper Mark Webber, he would bang his hand really hard on the table and tell everyone he’s upset. Jos wondered if maybe McLaren team likes Norris better than Piastri.

Here’s why Jos said these things:

• Piastri went from being 34 points ahead to being one point behind Norris
• The Australian boy hasn’t won a race since the Dutch GP in August
• Some people who watch races started thinking maybe McLaren helps Norris more than Piastri
• Jos said that Piastri didn’t just forget how to drive his race car

Piastri Talks Back Really Confidently

The McLaren driver told Jos Verstappen that he’s wrong! Piastri said really clearly that McLaren already tells both drivers to speak up for themselves. He said it’s not true that the team likes Norris better. Piastri says that’s just not what’s happening.

Piastri explained that there’s a good reason why he had a hard time lately. Everything makes sense when you think about it. The boss of McLaren team, Andrea Stella, said that some race tracks were really slippery and hard to drive on. Piastri had to learn a new way to drive to make his car go faster.

He Still Thinks He Can Be Champion

Even though Oscar isn’t in first place anymore, he still really really believes he can win! The Australian driver said people can think whatever they want to think, but he knows he’s still good enough to become the champion. He wants to be only the third person from Australia to be an F1 world champion and he would be the fifth youngest champion ever!

Piastri talked about how he wants to win at Khelo24race and other places. He wants to win the championship because he was actually the best driver, not because the team helped him more than the other driver. He wants to do things that he can control by himself instead of getting special help.

What he thinks about everything:

• He knows that everybody had some hard times this year
• Piastri doesn’t want to change how he does things at McLaren
• He thinks that if you only help one driver, you only have a 50 percent chance to win
• The Australian boy doesn’t care what people say about him from outside the team

The Race for Champion Gets Really Exciting

The race to see who becomes champion is super duper close now with only four more races left! Norris is one point ahead of Piastri after the Mexico race. Max Verstappen is 36 points behind Norris but he’s still really good and could beat both McLaren drivers.

Piastri looked like he was going to win for sure after he got so far ahead when he won the Dutch GP at the end of August. But then Norris and Verstappen both got more points than him in the last five races. Now three drivers are all fighting to be champion when they go to Sao Paulo!

People Are Watching How the McLaren Team Treats Both Drivers

Lots of people are watching how Piastri and Norris get along with each other. On the internet, people started saying crazy things like maybe McLaren was breaking Piastri’s car on purpose! Piastri said that’s really silly and not true. McLaren explained that Norris was just better at taking care of his tires and driving on slippery tracks at Austin and Mexico City.

Piastri said that both drivers talk to each other a lot about what they think. The team treats both racers the same and lets them race against each other fairly. This makes watching races really fun for people on Khelo24race websites because both McLaren drivers are trying super hard to beat each other!

What’s Going to Happen at Sao Paulo

The Sao Paulo GP is another really important race for Piastri to do better. Norris got to start at the very front of the race because he won the sprint race earlier. Piastri will start in fourth place, behind Charles Leclerc from Ferrari team. Piastri was actually the fastest at first during the special qualifying.

Piastri crashed his car during the sprint race when he was in third place, and that made him nine points behind Norris now. Even though he was sad about crashing, he said his car was going really fast all weekend. The McLaren driver wants to grab any chance he gets during the race to do better.

The End of the Story

How Piastri answered Jos Verstappen shows that he’s really strong in his brain like a true champion should be! The young boy from Australia won’t let other people’s words make him feel bad or change what he’s doing. He’s had some tough times lately but he explained everything really well without making excuses. 

McLaren keeps helping both drivers the same way, which makes one of the most exciting teammate battles in F1 races for a long time. With four races still left to go, Piastri has lots and lots of chances to get back to first place and show everyone they were wrong about him!