Jul.15 (GMM) Components 1 legend Alain Prost admits he’s impressed with the game’s present championship chief, Oscar Piastri.
After 4 consecutive titles for Max Verstappen, F1 appears set to get a brand new world champion in 2025 – one of many McLaren duo consisting of Piastri or British GP winner Lando Norris.
Prost is pretty positive the battle is not going to morph into an explosive scenario resembling his personal intra-McLaren battle with the good Ayrton Senna.
“We truthfully didn’t care in any respect concerning the different drivers or the opposite groups,” Prost, 70, is quoted as saying by Italy’s Autosprint on the Goodwood Competition of Pace.
“I don’t assume they’ll have the identical issues we did,” the quadruple world champion added.
Certainly, the personalities of Piastri and Norris are very completely different than the Prost-Senna dynamic, though the Frenchman sees the similarities between himself and the 24-year-old Australian.
“I do know Oscar very properly,” Prost mentioned. “I used to be the one who pushed Renault to deliver him into the academy a very long time in the past – they didn’t need to do it.
“He’s a particular driver,” he added. “I like the way in which he operates, which is a bit of like me – he thinks within the second to make the correct overtaking manoeuvre and to be a bit of extra crafty.
“You understand I like him as a driver.”
After Norris’ Silverstone win, Piastri’s benefit is down to only 8 factors – with an enormous hole now forming to Verstappen in P3.
“Within the championship, it’s very troublesome when two drivers are combating for the title,” mentioned Prost, “however in case you have a enough benefit over the opposite groups and the drivers, letting them race and battle is the very best factor for the game.
“If the scenario turns into a bit of nearer with the opponents, with a driver or one other group, then it is going to be harder – but it surely doesn’t appear like it is going to be that manner.”
