Oscar Piastri cannot fail again in Singapore

The Australian, leader of F1, comes from two serious errors in Azerbaijan, where he cut with a 34 -ran off -firing at the points.

In any sport, athletes show how strong their temperance when decisive moments arrive. That basketball free that looks like a simple usual procedure, but suddenly the ball is transformed into a 1,000 kilos rock when it comes to a key moment. That moment of getting to get to something big in tennis and the arm seems to be seized. That defining penalty in which the arch seems to be as large as a soda cape. In motor racing also occurs. Is the pressure and the closeness to the great conquest the reason that led Oscar Piastri to fail both in the Azerbaijan GP? With the disappointment of Baku in the bag, Formula 1 leader arrives in Singapore, with the need to leave the failures behind and the obligation not to make mistakes again.

The Australian of McLaren was granitic throughout the year. In its baggage of errors of 2025 there was only one big stain: on the first date, in Australia, when it was clueless in full rain and turned turned in the wet pass while trying to return to track with its MCL39. The ninth place was the maximum that he rescued in his local career. From there, to Baku (17th date) there were only small errors that meant losing a tenth here and another there. But his temperance and stone mentality had been constant. Thus, he imposed himself on his emotionally unstable companion Lando Norris to be the pointer of the tournament, despite the various signs that came out from Woking and that they seem to show that English is the favorite in the contest.

But Azerbaijan arrived and Piastri was strong, very strong. A serious mistake in which left him against the wall, with his McLaren very damaged, in the Q3. The English team had to appeal to the spare chassis to leave from the ninth place the next day. That thick failure came after a Friday of practices in which he had been rarely unstable and out of rhythm.

The colophon of the lean weekend Azerbaiyan for Melbourne’s was Sunday in the race. On the pique, he stopped when the traffic lights went out and fell ninth to the last. Disappointed, above the sixth curve, entered totally past, blocked and ended, again, head against the wall. Not a return came to give the Australian.

The abandonment cut with a 34 -run in a row in a dot zone (Miami 2024 had been the last competition without score in the main race). In matters of the current championship, his very weak weekend was very cheap, because he arrived in Baku with 31 points ahead of Norris and left with 25, because English also did not close a good result. The problem is that Max Verstappen won againand the 104 points that took two races back, went down to 69 …

Piastri arrives in Singapore now with the need to leave Azerbaijan’s weekend and channel his walk again. His partner and rival Norris was fallible many times in the year, with errors almost on all weekends, either in classification (fundamentally) and career. The margin of Australian points about English is a race. Marina Bay falls better to Norris (won last year) than Piastri (he was third in 2024).

“I have worked with multi -champion pilots and in a season, every season, even the most dominant, even with one of the best pilots in the history of Formula 1, such as Michael Schumacher, I have seen events like this. The maximum that is taken out is learning,” was the defense of Andrea Stellathe director of McLaren, after the Azerbaija race.

In the previous one to Singapore, Piastri preferred to leave Baku in the past and aim for the future: “On paper, and with the temperatures of Singapore, our car proved to be comfortable in the past, and with that in mind, I hope a really positive weekend. Singapore is the closest race to Australia in terms of distance, so we always see a great Australian contingent encouraging their pilots in one of the best night races of the season. It is fantastic to have that additional support.” Oscar He knows that the eyes will be on him to see how he responds to the pressure after errors.