Oscar Piastri believes McLaren might be at “the beginning of one thing particular” and he desires to verify he capitalizes with a championship try in 2025.
McLaren gained Method 1’s constructors’ championship for the primary time in 1 / 4 of a century final season, holding off Ferrari in a detailed battle. Lando Norris completed second to Max Verstappen within the drivers’ championship because the workforce turned stronger because the 12 months went on, and Piastri believes he’s going to have an opportunity of combating for the drivers’ title over the approaching 12 months.
“I positive hope so,” Piastri instructed SiriusXM. “I feel has been an important enchancment personally. Additionally for the workforce it has been an enormous step ahead.
“For me, I do know I’ve nonetheless acquired some room to go and issues to enhance, however I feel I’ve made loads of huge steps this 12 months and I’m simply excited to attempt to work on my alternatives within the low season and go once more subsequent 12 months, as a result of I actually really feel like this might be the beginning of one thing particular. So I’ll be sure that I’m prepared for the problem.”
Whereas Piastri will look to make an extra step in his personal improvement forward of the beginning of the brand new marketing campaign, he admits he didn’t count on to contribute to a constructors’ championship in simply his second season in Method 1.
“This success has clearly been from the results of a 12 months’s laborious work — and even longer than that, this journey that we’ve actually circled has been the results of two years’ work, and it’s an actual pleasure to be a part of this,” he stated.
“I by no means would have dreamt that at this stage of my life and this stage of my profession I’d be in a world championship-winning workforce. So, very happy with everyone of what we’ve been in a position to obtain.”
