2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button has praised Oscar Piastri’s means to “management a race” from the entrance after profitable the Miami Grand Prix.
Piastri made it a hat-trick of wins to increase his lead within the F1 drivers’ championship to 16 factors over McLaren teammate Lando Norris.
The essential level within the race was the beginning, the place Norris was compelled off the observe by Max Verstappen.
This incident promoted Piastri to second and gave him the primary alternative to get previous Verstappen.
By the point Piastri and Norris overtook Verstappen, the Australian had a nine-second lead on the entrance of the sphere.
Norris lowered this to 4 seconds by the tip of the race, suggesting he had a small tempo benefit.
In the course of the post-race interviews in parc ferme, Button famous the “huge distinction” he’s observed in Piastri this 12 months.
Button stated to Piastri: “For me, the large distinction that I see from you from final 12 months to now could be the race tempo.
“The way you management a race, evidently after we put Oscar within the lead of a Grand Prix, there’s no trying again, you management the tempo from the time you get into the lead till the chequered flag.”
Piastri replied: “Yeah, I imply, I feel the primary stint was actually, actually robust after which on the hards I used to be actually struggling a bit of bit. So, it was a superb factor that I constructed that hole within the first stint.
“I feel in direction of the tip I began to get issues a bit extra below management, however there’s nonetheless undoubtedly some issues to work on from this afternoon.
“So, very proud of the win, very proud of the factors, however continuously bought to continue learning, so, very glad to be leaving Miami on high.”
Button lauds “very intelligent” Piastri
Button recognised Piastri’s prowess in wheel-to-wheel fight.
The Sky F1 pundit was impressed with how Piastri compelled Verstappen onto the soiled line, in the end leading to a mistake that gave him the race lead.
Then again, Norris discovered it tougher to get by Verstappen, shedding much more time.
“It’s actually attention-grabbing as a result of Oscar actually squeezes him. Max places it on the within, usually you’d drive down the surface and the man on the within will pull to the left as a lot as he may,” Button added.
“However Max is getting squeezed into the apex, which is placing him right into a dirtier a part of the observe. That was very intelligent from Oscar.”
