Oscar Piastri is enjoying every second of his late-season bloom at McLaren and is full of confidence about roaring to a second win in seven days at the Singapore Grand Prix.
“After an incredible weekend securing my second grand prix win, I’m ready to go for it again in Singapore,” declared the Australian.
Piastri says he can master the “incredibly demanding” heat and physical challenge of the floodlit Marina Bay track just a week after winning on another street circuit so brilliantly in Baku at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
“It’s a shorter circuit but an incredibly demanding one for the drivers. We have a good rhythm going in the team, and we now have to keep adding as many points as possible,” said the 23-year-old.
It was a year ago that, after being foiled by a qualifying red flag, Piastri produced a superb performance in Singapore to blast from 17th to seventh, a drive that bodes well for Sunday.
As does his remarkable run of recent form which, even if it may be too late to challenge for the championship itself, shows the Melburnian to be the most in-form driver in the whole of the F1 circus.
For Piastri has scored more points in the past seven grand prix than any of his opponents, including both his second-placed teammate Lando Norris and the reigning champ Max Verstappen, who, along with his Red Bull team, seem to have mislaid their mojo of late.
Piastri’s run since the end of June, starting at the Austrian Grand Prix, has been sensational – a sequence which reads 2nd, 4th, 1st, 2nd, 4th, 2nd and 1st.
