Oscar Piastri

And that was it, which, you know, is not an easy task, but it's a little bit easier when you've only got to worry about one or two people.

Obviously Max was back in the picture later in the year, but 2025 was the first time in F1 at least where I went, you know,

If I get close to my potential here, I'm going to win.

Yes, I do.

It's...

It's a double-edged sword, I would say.

There's obviously the confidence you get from that and just the enjoyment.

At the end of the day, we're all here on the grid because we're trying to win races and eventually championships.

So there's a lot of enjoyment that comes with that.

I guess there's also kind of the expectation or the building expectation of trying to keep that going.

And at certain points last year, finishing second was...

almost kind of the worst place I could finish because I got beaten by my teammate probably and our car was a lot better than everyone else's on certain weekends and, you know, I didn't do a good enough job basically.

So, you know, when finishing second feels like a bad weekend, it's tough and important to kind of look at

in a more holistic way and go okay yeah it wasn't a good weekend or whatever in the grand scheme of things but I still just finished second in an F1 race thinking I probably didn't do as good of a job as I should have or I could have so

Yeah, it's a double-edged sword and it's, you know, you've got to be careful to not get carried away either.

And what's the secret to that?

I think there was definitely thoughts of...

I don't think there was ever really the thoughts of I'm going to win the world championship or if there was… If there were, I was very quick to go calm yourself down because there's a long way to go.

But I – again, like after Melbourne, I knew within myself that I – it was within my power to win the world championship.

I didn't necessarily think or, you know, I wasn't certain it was going to happen, but I knew that –