'Constantly unhappy': What team boss thinks of Piastri

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New McLaren enlistee Oscar Piastri has received immoderate antithetic praise from his caller squad boss, who said the young Aussie is "almost perpetually unhappy".

Speaking astatine the motorboat of McLaren's 2023 car, squad main Andrea Stella said Piastri had instantly started questioning the team's processes.

But Stella insists that's a bully thing.

"We gave him immoderate audio files to perceive to of erstwhile races … the mode helium gets to the bottommost of matters, adjacent making questions; 'why did you guys bash this here? You could person done that'," Stella said.

"He challenges you. In a precise polite and constructive way, but helium doesn't instrumentality things superficially.

"He doesn't halt challenging conscionable to please. This is what we want. We privation to beryllium challenged.

"In this sense, helium is simply a demanding feline who tin assistance rise standards, by being astir perpetually unhappy.

"Even driving connected the simulator, you fto him thrust and you tin observe the mode a operator challenges himself successful presumption of uncovering speed."

Stella said Piastri had the "impressive" quality to scope the car's bounds done his ain processes successful the simulator - thing different drivers person needed assistance with.

"There are drivers with whom you person to usher the process step-by-step, portion Oscar was beauteous overmuch capable to spell precise adjacent to the bounds exploring his ain resources," helium said.

"In this sense, helium was impressive."

Despite Piastri's improvement work, Stella besides indicated the squad was "not wholly happy" with the car they had produced for the commencement of the season.

Teammate Lando Norris said helium expects to beryllium pushed by Piastri, who won 3 championships successful arsenic galore years earlier spending a twelvemonth connected the sidelines arsenic Alpine's improvement driver.

"The crushed Oscar is present is to propulsion maine more, is to propulsion the squad more. That's wherefore helium got brought into the team," Norris said.

"Absolutely, I deliberation that's going to assistance america arsenic a team, it's going to unit maine to propulsion the bounds that small spot more.

"It's evidently thing I was doing past year, but it mightiness conscionable beryllium that helium is capable to propulsion maine much successful antithetic areas of my driving and that should lone beryllium capable to assistance america instrumentality a measurement guardant arsenic a squad and to besides people much points arsenic a squad by the extremity of the season."

Piastri has chosen No.81 arsenic his contention number, which helium volition transportation passim his F1 career.

The 2023 play kicks disconnected with the Bahrain Grand Prix connected March 6.

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