Red Bull’s struggles in the 2024 season have allowed McLaren to close in on them in the constructors championship. Milton Keynes has faced such stern competition for the first time in the ground-effect era. Woking will have to keep up with this pace to overtake the Austrian constructor towards the end. As a result, Oscar Piastri has set his eyes on amassing victories against Red Bull.
Oscar Piastri has continued to closely follow his dominant teammate Lando Norris in performance. The young lineup at McLaren has maximized performance since the season’s beginning. Primarily, Piastri noted that the second half of the campaign was going to be ‘exciting.’ Additionally, the Aussie claimed that McLaren had continued to score the most points for seven or eight weekends.
I also think, just as a sport, it's going to be an exciting second half of the year, We've been scoring the most or second most points for the last seven or eight weekends now.Oscar Piastri said, as reported by speedcafe.com
Apart from this, Piastri noted that McLaren had continued to close in on Red Bull in the constructors’ championship. As a result, having their eyes set on the title was a realistic target. However, the 23-year-old did accept that this goal wasn’t going to be easy but wasn’t completely unrealistic on their end.
We're still closing in on Red Bull, so I think having our sights firmly set on trying to win the constructors' championship is a realistic target – not an easy one, but certainly not unrealistic.Oscar Piastri added
Oscar Piastri claims winning the drivers’ championship was ‘an extremely outside chance’
Oscar Piastri has continued to score great points over the race weekends and has moved up in the pecking order. Piastri finds himself in the fourth spot just ten points behind Charles Leclerc in third place. However, the Australian accepted that he wasn’t ‘naive’ and knew that winning the world championship was an outside chance. Regardless, finishing in fifth, sixth, or seventh would give him much more satisfaction to contribute.
I'm not naive, I know, winning the driver's championship is an extremely outside chance, Whether I finish fifth, sixth, seventh, third, I don't really I don't really mind; it would give me much more satisfaction to have helped the team to a constructors' championship.Oscar Piastri added
McLaren will have to continue to develop their chassis to emerge victorious in the development war against its rivals. Mercedes is also seemingly joining the running for the championship contention. Hence, the 2024 season promises great excitement and competition for the last ten races of the season.
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