Oscar Piastri says a transfer to Crimson Bull shouldn’t be on his horizon following feedback from Helmut Marko linking him with a swap from McLaren.
In line with German web site F1-Insider, Marko claimed that former Crimson Bull driver Mark Webber – who’s Piastri’s supervisor – has been pushing for talks about what the workforce may do with its driver line-up in future. Nonetheless, when requested if that was a chance for him within the coming years, Piastri refuted Marko’s declare.
“Undoubtedly not, I’m very comfortable the place I’m,” Piastri mentioned. “I’m underneath contract for the subsequent two years after this, and I’m actually not seeking to go elsewhere.
“It wouldn’t be per week in F1 with out some feedback from Helmut. Not massively [surprised], I imply, it’s a pleasant praise, I might say, however once more, I’m very proud of the place I’m, and I believe they’ve fairly a giant pool of drivers that they will select from in the event that they wish to.”
The feedback come amid a constructors’ championship combat between McLaren, Crimson Bull and Ferrari, and Piastri is hopeful that the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez will probably be better-suited to his automotive on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix than the final race in america.
“It’s fairly completely different in lots of methods to Austin, clearly the altitude and stuff like that makes it fairly a unique problem, however hopefully it helps and fits us just a little bit extra,” he mentioned. “I don’t suppose we essentially anticipated Austin to be… ‘painful’ is a little bit of an exaggeration, however not as aggressive as we hoped, however it wasn’t an entire shock.
“I believe we’ve bought some good concepts about why qualifying was so difficult, trying again on the weekend. I believe the race itself was really fairly optimistic, particularly from 12 months in the past, it was roughly the identical, particularly with the primary stint I used to be going with Lando.
“The second stint, a number of errors in the course of that onerous stint, however for 95% of the race we had been a really even match. And I believe even simply as a workforce, our tempo was really fairly robust, it was simply that we had been very gradual in the beginning of the race, after which everybody constructed the gaps and that was form of it for us.
“So I believe it appeared just a little bit worse than it was, it’s simply that with the competitors being so tight, if you happen to put a step fallacious, then you definitely go from being first and second to the place we had been in fourth and fifth. It’s only a very tight area in the mean time.”
