Oscar Piastri grew to become the fourth F1 driver in historical past to finish each single lap throughout the 2024 season.
Whereas Piastri endured a disappointing race on the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, ending tenth, he reached a formidable milestone.
The Australian accomplished each lap in the course of the season – turning into simply the fourth driver in F1 historical past to take action.
He joins Michael Schumacher (2002), Lewis Hamilton (2019), and Max Verstappen (2023) in attaining this feat.
It’s a testomony to Piastri’s consistency all year long, notably as, not like the aforementioned trio, he didn’t win the world title.
On the entire, it was a formidable 12 months for Piastri, notably in the course of the European leg of the season.
He claimed his first F1 victory in Hungary, whereas his win in Azerbaijan towards Charles Leclerc was sensational.
Nonetheless, since Singapore, teammate Lando Norris has loved a decisive edge.
The issue for Piastri, not like in his rookie 12 months, has been his qualifying tempo.
Piastri out-qualified Norris simply 4 occasions all through the year- a worrying statistic for somebody with ‘world champion potential’.
Nonetheless, Piastri contributed to McLaren’s first constructors’ title since 1998.
Piastri concentrating on ‘each championships’
With McLaren anticipated to start out subsequent 12 months with a automobile able to profitable the world title, Piastri has one purpose on his thoughts.
“I believe hopefully we are able to come out the blocks robust subsequent season and mount a problem from the beginning,” Piastri mentioned.
“I nonetheless have some issues to work on and enhance, however I really feel prefer it’s been a very good step up from my rookie season on the entire.
“Excited for subsequent 12 months, excited for a little bit of a break first after which go once more and attempt to combat for each championships.”
