Oscar Piastri says a transfer to Pink Bull isn’t on his horizon following feedback from Helmut Marko linking him with a swap from McLaren.
In accordance with German web site F1-Insider, Marko claimed that former Pink Bull driver Mark Webber – who’s Piastri’s supervisor – has been pushing for talks about what the group may do with its driver line-up in future. Nevertheless, when requested if that was a chance for him within the coming years, Piastri refuted Marko’s declare.
“Undoubtedly not, I’m very comfortable the place I’m,” Piastri mentioned. “I’m below contract for the subsequent two years after this, and I’m definitely not seeking to go elsewhere.
“It wouldn’t be every week in F1 with out some feedback from Helmut. Not massively [surprised], I imply, it’s a pleasant praise, I might say, however once more, I’m very proud of the place I’m, and I believe they’ve fairly an enormous pool of drivers that they’ll select from in the event that they need to.”
The feedback come amid a constructors’ championship battle between McLaren, Pink Bull and Ferrari, and Piastri is hopeful that the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez might be better-suited to his automotive on the Mexico Metropolis Grand Prix than the final race in america.
“It’s fairly totally different in plenty of methods to Austin, clearly the altitude and stuff like that makes it fairly a distinct problem, however hopefully it helps and fits us a bit of bit extra,” he mentioned. “I don’t suppose we essentially anticipated Austin to be… ‘painful’ is a little bit of an exaggeration, however not as aggressive as we hoped, however it wasn’t an entire shock.
“I believe we’ve acquired some good concepts about why qualifying was so difficult, wanting again on the weekend. I believe the race itself was truly fairly optimistic, particularly from 12 months in the past, it was roughly the identical, particularly with the primary stint I used to be going with Lando.
“The second stint, a number of errors in the midst of that tough stint, however for 95% of the race we have been a really even match. And I believe even simply as a group, our tempo was truly fairly robust, it was simply that we have been very sluggish at the beginning of the race, after which everybody constructed the gaps and that was form of it for us.
“So I believe it appeared a bit of bit worse than it was, it’s simply that with the competitors being so tight, when you put a step incorrect, then you definately go from being first and second to the place we have been in fourth and fifth. It’s only a very tight discipline in the mean time.”
