"Piastri Insists \u2018I Can Be World Champion\u2019 as He Expands on Rules of Engagement With Norris For 2025"

" Piastri Insists \u2018I Can Be World Champion\u2019 as He Expands on Rules of Engagement With Norris For 2025 \r\n\r\nOscar Piastri is confident that he can potentially become World Champion in 2025, with the McLaren driver also feeling assured that he and team mate Lando Norris are \u201ccrystal clear\u201d on their rules of engagement entering into the season.\r\n\r\nIt was a hugely successful year for the papaya squad in 2024, having sealed their first Constructors\u2019 crown since 1998 while Norris finished P2 in the Drivers\u2019 Championship, the Briton proving to be Max Verstappen\u2019s closest challenger.\r\n\r\nThere were occasionally some tense moments involving team orders, however, including at the Hungarian Grand Prix where Norris belatedly responded to a request to hand the victory back to Piastri. Meanwhile later in the season the Australian moved over for his team mate in the Sao Paulo Sprint to support his championship bid.\r\n\r\nSpeaking to the media after getting behind the wheel of the squad\u2019s 2025 challenger during a promotional filming day at Silverstone, Piastri was asked if he felt confident that he could beat Norris in a fight for the title this season, having finished behind the Briton in 2024.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely a clean slate [this year],\u201d the 23-year-old responded. \u201cEveryone is starting on zero again, and I think last season towards the end it was natural that I still had the opportunities to go out and put my best foot forward.\r\n\r\n\u201cYes there were a couple of situations where I ended up helping Lando, but there were some ways he still helped out me so it wasn\u2019t as clear-cut as that. But definitely we are starting on a clean slate and I do think that I can become World Champion this year.\r\n\r\n\u201cI feel like 12 months ago I was going into the season still with some weaknesses that I wasn\u2019t particularly confident with. I think through last season I addressed them, it\u2019s now just about addressing them every weekend and making sure that I\u2019m putting my best foot forward every weekend and that is what is going to be the difference.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019m confident, I think we\u2019ve still got some things to work on and [we\u2019re] definitely not the finished product, but I don\u2019t think anyone necessarily is and I think if we can work on some of the things that we\u2019ve set out to do in this off-season then I\u2019ll have a lot of tools to be able to try to make that happen.\u201d\r\n\r\nPushed further on whether he had confidence that the rules of engagement between himself and Norris were clear entering into the campaign, Piastri continued: \u201cI think that we\u2019re crystal clear going into the start of the season.\r\n\r\n\u201cLike I\u2019ve said, we\u2019re both starting on zero. There\u2019s every opportunity for either one of us to go win races. Of course if there becomes a points difference in either direction towards the end of the season and we need our team mate\u2019s help then we\u2019ll try and help each other out.\r\n\r\n\u201cBut that\u2019s still going to be a long, long way away and hopefully never comes to fruition, because I think for either one of us we want to win because we\u2019ve been able to put in the performances ourselves, so going into the season we\u2019ll be racing each other hard but fairly, and hopefully it\u2019s more often than not [that we\u2019re] fighting for first and second.\u201d"

"Piastri Insists \u2018I Can Be World Champion\u2019 as He Expands on Rules of Engagement With Norris For 2025"

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