Oscar Piastri details 'rabbit hole' danger in crucial mental battle

Oscar Piastri has detailed the mental danger of falling into a "rabbit hole", and considering what could have happened if a mistake was not made.  The Australian has enjoyed an exceptional season so far and finds himself leading the F1 drivers' title by nine points, ahead of McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.  Unless a dramatic serious of events takes places, it will be either Piastri or Norris collecting a maiden championship come the end of the year.  Piastri has rapidly grown in stature during his relatively short career in the pinnacle of motorsport, with the current campaign representing only his third season.  Already this year, the 24-year-old has won six races and has started outside the top three just once. Nobody has performed as consistently, with him recognising how good a car McLaren designed for 2025. "You know, we obviously had our success at the back end of last year, but this year has been a completely different story," Piastri told Sky F1 .  "To have the car that we've had from the beginning, and I feel like I've taken a good step forward as well. So putting the two together, it's been a fun year." Piastri's reaction to making mistakes Whilst Piastri has excelled, mistakes have been made. In Australia, he span at the penultimate corner mid-race when heavy rain suddenly fell, dropping him from second to ninth.  In Silverstone, a comfortable race victory turned into a P2, due to a 10-second time penalty for erratic braking behind the safety car.  Further errors were made in Austria and Hungary, where he suffered major lock ups when attempting to overtake Norris.  Some drivers struggle mentally after a series of mistakes, whilst Piastri has remained unfazed by errors.  Asked if he spends time thinking about setbacks, like his Silverstone penalty, Piastri explained: "For me, I always find it reasonably easy to move on from that.  "And you know, you can, if you start going down that rabbit hole, you can start thinking about all kinds of things.  "And it's not like I'm the only one that's lost points one way or another. I think in the grand scheme of things, that always, that kind of thing always nets itself out reasonably well. So yeah, I never think about it too much."