Former Formula 1 driver Karun Chandhok is of the opinion that McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, who secured his first Grand Prix win in Hungary recently, will soon
, who secured his first Grand Prix win in Hungary recently, will soon outperform his teammate Lando Norris after the summer break, despite Lando displaying an upper edge over the Australian driver early in the season.
Barring a few mistakes on the track, the Australian driver seems to have been gaining an edge over Norris, who also scored his first F1 win in Miami this season. Though Norris is seen as an experienced driver who made his F1 debut with McLaren in 2019, the gap between him and Piastri, who was a rookie last year, has been narrowing fast.
"I thought, 'okay, he's cracked it.' He's got his head around this Formula One thing. And I think that was a big, big day for him to lay down a marker that he is an equal to Lando.""I think there will be races still on a Sunday where Lando will have a slight edge. I think in qualifying they are equal, actually. But I would probably say that in the second half of the year, I take a little punt and say that Oscar will outscore Lando.
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella revealed that if Norris had not followed the order, the team would have had to consider establishing a hierarchy between the drivers—a structure that currently does not exist but may be introduced in the later part of the season. He told the"When you have Oscar and Lando, we are in the lucky position that we don't really need to decide who is a number one driver.
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