05/09/2025 06:30
Oscar Piastri has asserted he still considers Lando Norris a
significant threat in the title fight following the Briton's major
setback last weekend in the Netherlands. Piastri won his seventh
grand prix of the season last Sunday, while team-mate Norris was
forced to retire with an engine issue in the final laps. It has
left Norris sitting 34 points down on Piastri in the title fight,
giving a significant advantage to the latter. But when asked how
much the large lead is playing on his mind, Piastri told media
including RacingNews365 : "Honestly, very little. "One of my own
championships, I've had a much bigger gap than this and had it
pretty much erased before the final round. "I've got personal
experience of this not being a comfortable gap. "It's still far
too early to be calculating and settling for positions that aren't
first. "For me, the approach is still exactly the same. That
won't change until the gap is pretty significantly bigger or the
amount of races is significantly smaller." Piastri does not believe
Norris will change his approach and take added risk to close the
deficit in the races ahead. "I don't think so, I don't think much
will change," he said. "He's certainly not out of the fight. Yes,
it's a bit more difficult now, but I don't expect much to change.
"We'll race each other the same way. I think the amount of
risk-taking will be the same. "We'll both be trying to drive as
fast as we can. It's not like we've been holding anything back from
that side of things."
