F1 newbie Oscar Piastri believes he can beat McLaren teammate Lando Norris in his debut season

Oscar Piastri thinks he can outperform teammate Lando Norris in his debut year in Formula 1, but conceded it will continue to keep expectations in test forward of his to start with marketing campaign on the grid.

The 21-year-aged has changed Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren after investing past season as the reserve driver for Alpine and will make his Method 1 debut future thirty day period when the year gets underway in Bahrain.

Norris outperformed Ricciardo in 16 out of 22 races past time, ending with 122 factors to his teammate’s 37 and boasting McLaren’s only podium of 2022.

But Piastri reported he relishes the option of demanding the Briton in his initial year in Components 1. 

‘I imagine so,’ he informed ABC when requested whether he considered he could finish ahead of his teammate. 

Oscar Piastri thinks he can conquer teammate Lando Norris in his debut season in F1

Norris claimed McLaren’s only podium of 2022 and completed with 122 details to Daniel Ricciardo’s 37, as he outperformed his teammate in 16 out of 22 races

‘I think everybody has to have that self-belief that they can earn, or if they’re not in a posture to earn to do the best that they can with what they have.’

A globe champion in System 2 and Method 3 in 2020 and 2021, Piastri has extensive been regarded as one particular of System 1’s increasing stars. 

And with Ricciardo no for a longer period on the grid soon after returning to Pink Bull as reserve driver, Piastri will the only home driver at the Australian Grand Prix on April 2.

Not that the 21-12 months-aged seems fazed by the prospect of flying the Australian flag on his very own.  

‘I grew up 10-15 minutes down the street from Albert Park,’ he reported.

‘I was there very last calendar year as a reserve driver and it was a fairly electric powered atmosphere. So knowing that the group is going to be there, with me as the dwelling driver now. It’s likely to be a pretty particular celebration.’

Speaking on the Beyond the Grid podcast last thirty day period, Ricciardo urged Piastri to absorb as a lot data as he can but warned him to maintain anticipations in check in his rookie year.

Piastri and Norris released the McLaren MCL60 past 7 days in Woking

And Piastri acknowledged there were being no established targets ahead of his debut campaign in Components 1.

‘Putting [points and wins] figures on my expectations is rather complicated, especially in F1, I assume it will depend wherever we are as a team, in which the automobile is at,’ he reported.

“For me, a profitable calendar year would be me placing the foundations for afterwards in the year and the a long time to arrive, ideally, and doing almost everything the suitable way from the commencing […] setting up very good patterns.

‘If there’s any benefits that come out of that, then which is a bonus.’