Piastri on Norris' 'nice guy' approach to title: 'You have to be tough on track'

14:55, 28 Apr

byNorberto Mujica

Lando Norris claims that there are certain traits he won't give up in the quest to be world champion. Whilst teammate Oscar Piastri agrees, he believes nonetheless, that 'you have to be tough on track'.

In an interview with The Guardian, Norris was clear: "There are certain things I would not do that other champions have done. I don’t have as much of a killer instinct as probably most of the drivers or most champions because I was just not brought up that way.”

Piastri agrees with Norris, but reaffirms 'you need to be tough on track'

When faced with his teammate's comments, Piastri felt in a similar way. “I think everyone has their own personality, everyone has their own style,” he said quoted by PlanetF1.

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“I think the most detrimental thing you can do is try and do it in a way that’s not your own style. For some people, that looks very different,” before stating the non-negotiable traits a driver who wants to realistically become world champion should possess.

“Obviously being fast is the most important one. But there are certain traits that you need. But I think, as Lando said, that doesn’t mean you need to be a bad person. You need to be tough on track. But there’s a lot of different ways you can go about it."

“I don’t think there’s one style or one perfect mould of what a Formula 1 World Champion looks like. I think they’ve all looked slightly different.

“You could argue that some of them look similar in a lot of ways, but again, I think the most important thing is to try and do it the way you want to do it, and that will give you the most.”