- Guenther Steiner says that Oscar Piastri could win the championship
- Talented Aussie will return to Melbourne Park next month
The cult figure of Formula 1, Guenther Steiner, says that Oscar Piestri Australian could not only get victory in the Melbourne Grand Prix, but also eliminate the world championship this year.
Piastri, who won two Grand Prize last year while ending fourth in the championship, has reached jumps and limits in the last two seasons.
Steiner – The former team director Haas F1 whose punished and infectious personality made him the surprise star of the popular mega docuseries Netflix Drive to survive, expects great things from Piastri.
“I think he now has the right car and I think this is his year,” he said News Corp.
'When he arrived as a rookie, he met too much for a rookie in 2023 and in the '24 he continued with some improvement.
“And this year, he's now ready to do it.”
Guenther Steiner is optimistic about Oscar Piestri's possibilities this year
Steiner says that Piastri has survived in 2023 and 2024 and now it is 'his year'
Steiner sees Piastri as a real opportunity to take home all the championship in just his third season.
“I think it's very good and surely he learned a lot last year,” he said.
'One of the things to wait for certainty this year is McLaren because I think talent, Lando and Oscar are very close.
'I think they are the same. They have the same speed … I think that as the season progresses they will want one of their boys to go to the driver championship.
'Obviously, the pressure now enters Oscar because it shows that it can do it. Now he needs to love him a little more because he wants to win a world championship now '.
Last week, while enjoying his first trip at the new McLaren, Piastri said the same.
“I want to win the World Championship this year,” said Piastri, who can't wait to start his season in front of his multitude of Melbourne in a month in the Australian Grand of being the first world champion of origin from Alan Jones in 1980.
'We are starting with a clean slate and I think I can become a world champion this year.
Piastri won two Grand Prize last year while ending fourth in the championship
Piasstri says he plans to challenge for the championship this year
'I feel that 12 months ago I was still entering the season with some weaknesses with which I had no confidence.
“I think of last season I went to them.”
In saying that it had been “great” at the steering wheel of the MCl39 for the first time, Piasstri joked with the “new innovations” that McLaren had introduced to make the car even better than the MCL38 in which he and Norris finished the first of the team . Constructors crown since 1998.
'We have not been still. There are some things that are different, some new innovations in this car and that is what it should do to try to stay at the top
'I think that during the past season we went to the top in the Construction Championship, but it was very tight throughout the season, so you can really not afford to stay still. There are many teams waiting to try to overcome us.
'I am definitely entering this year with the objective and preparation to try to challenge for a championship, and try to challenge for both championships.
“Winning Grands Prix at the beginning of my career has given me a taste for success and I want much more.”