Oscar Piastri has been fast to close down rising ideas that his administration group are manoeuvring for him to make a transfer from McLaren to Purple Bull.
The rumours had been sparked when Helmut Marko, Purple Bull’s senior advisor, instructed the F1 Insider web site that Mark Webber, the previous Australian F1 star who’s now Piastri’s supervisor, was “intensively” pushing for negotiations with the Austrian world champions.
However Piastri, whose serene progress in simply his second 12 months within the F1 ranks has shortly made him one of the vital admired drivers on the grid, wasted no time in dismissing the hypothesis whereas in Mexico for the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix.
“It would not be every week in F1 with out some feedback from Helmut,” Piastri instructed reporters with an ethereal put-down of the octogenarian Austrian Marko, who’s, certainly, famed for his usually outspoken feedback.
“It is a good praise, I’d say. However once more, I am very proud of the place I’m. They (Purple Bull) have fairly an enormous pool of drivers that they will select from if they need.”
Max Verstappen, Purple Bull’s world champion and present F1 championship chief, is one other inside their group who’s made it clear how a lot of a fan he’s of the 23-year-old Piastri, who’s mendacity fourth within the F1 standings this season with two victories already below his belt.
Alongside together with his English teammate Lando Norris, who’s second within the championship behind Verstappen, Piastri has additionally helped his British group McLaren to the highest of the constructors’ standings, forward of the two-time defending champs Purple Bull by 40 factors.
Purple Bull’s curiosity additionally comes at a time when the instant way forward for their quantity two driver Sergio Perez remains to be up within the air with the Mexican having endured a troublesome season, at present mendacity eighth within the standings.
Piastri, whose stand-out efficiency in his second season was his drive within the Azerbaijan Grand Prix the place he overtook Charles Leclerc after which held the Ferrari driver at bay en path to his second win of the season, has been having fun with a spectacular run of type over the previous 4 months.
Beginning on the Austrian Grand Prix on the finish of June, Piastri has completed second, fourth, first, second, fourth, second, first, fourth and fifth.
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