Oscar Piastri has dismissed recommendations that McLaren can be hindered by a rule change in June, asserting that he expects the crew to stay robust all through the season.
Starting with the Spanish Grand Prix on June 1, the FIA will impose stricter entrance wing load checks to restrict flex, following earlier changes made to rear wings.
Red Bull crew principal Christian Horner famous in Japan final weekend that the change may have a significant influence, with uncertainty about which groups can be affected.
“We have a big regulation change coming at race nine. How is that going to affect the run of play?” the Briton instructed Sky Sports.
Piastri doubted it might make a lot distinction to McLaren, which leads each championships, with Lando Norris some extent away from Red Bull’s four-time world champion Max Verstappen, the winner at Suzuka final Sunday.
“I’m pretty confident we’ll be strong all year,” the Australian instructed reporters forward of the Bahrain Grand Prix, Round 4 of the championship.
“I don’t suppose it’ll change an excessive amount of. I haven’t spoken to the crew about it a lot, in all honesty, which most likely tells you sufficient about that.
“Let’s see when we get to Spain, but we’ve still got a lot of races until then, and I think we’ll be a strong team all year round.”
Piastri, who received in China after Norris triumphed within the Australian opener, mentioned he would somewhat be driving his automotive than a Red Bull.
While Verstappen has proven the automotive can win, he is already on his second teammate of the season after Liam Lawson was demoted again to Racing Bulls with Yuki Tsunoda transferring in the wrong way.
“Clearly, the car looks pretty difficult. We saw that with Liam. We saw it with Checo (Sergio Perez) last year, even with Yuki in Japan,” mentioned Piastri.
“I feel going into an surroundings that’s been so centered on the way in which Max drives for practically 10 years now — it might be a really powerful surroundings to enter and have instant success.
“I’m quite happy that I’m driving a McLaren and not a Red Bull at the moment.”
Piastri mentioned the McLaren was a difficult automotive to extract most efficiency from, however a lot of its concepts and philosophies had been just like final yr.
“If I had to pick out of all 10 cars on the grid right now, I’d still pretty happily be choosing ours,” he mentioned.
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