Norris often beats Piastri in qualifying: Oscar explains the difference!

It is 14-4 in Norris' favour during qualifying this season. During an exclusive interview with GPblog, Piastri recently addressed how that difference occurs? "I don't really want to say it's experience," Piastri stated. "It's just getting the most out of the car every time. There have been a couple of races where the gap's been a bit bigger than I would have liked in qualifying, but I think for the first 10 races of the year, we were pretty much separated by half a tenth one way or the other."

"So I think whilst, yes, the head to head is one sided, the gap has been very, very small all the time. It's really just been getting it all together, especially in the last lap of Q3. Just judging the conditions perfectly is very tough, especially with the tyres we have. You can underdo it and you can lose a lot of time. You overdo it a tiny bit and the same thing. So, really, getting it in that sweet spot is the last difficult step. I feel like generally it's just been incredibly, incredibly tough."

Piastri doesn't want to reinvent the wheel

In other words, it's all about execution. There is no difference in pure pace, according to Piastri. "My highs this season, I feel like they have been very high. So I don't think it's necessarily a thing of trying to become faster and faster. Of course, we're always trying to become faster, but it's more about maximising that and making sure I do that every time rather than still trying to find it, if that makes sense. So just trying to get that last one point," Piastri said.

This article has been created in collaboration with Matt Gretton