daren_p wrote: ↑19 Jan 2023, 20:51
AR3-GP wrote: ↑19 Jan 2023, 19:04
I think it's the wrong approach to have all the talking heads in his ear telling him the car is "different" because it teaches him to blame the car.
You have to get in and get on with whatever you are given. It sounds like Piastri isn't letting what I feel is overblown messaging, get to him.
Maybe I've missed it but where in that article did it say everyone is telling him the car is "different"? From what I read, it appears he's looking at things the way he should. The car drives different but he's not sure if that is MCL specific or 22 car specific. Car isn't necessarily natural for him to drive but no car typically is & its his job to adapt. Sounds like the right approach to me.
Might have been a small misunderstanding. I didn't mean to imply it's the article (but in some ways it is, because he was "asked" and you don't recall any other rookie driver being asked if he is worried if the car is "different" to drive
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All of the noise surrounding Ricciardo's performance revolves around making a big deal about how the car was "so different" or "unusual". Media was even pressing Norris and Sainz (who hadn't even driven a MClaren for years) on it.
That's what I meant by talking heads. There is very much an aura built up around the Mclaren being "unusual" which I feel is mostly nonsense. Carlos crashed his Ferrari more than the Mclaren.
It's important for Oscar (as he says he will in the article), to just adapt, and get on with it, rather than have an "excuse" handed to him on a silver platter by the media, and likely Ricciardo, that he starts repeating should he not meet his own expectations.