KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON

Since Kimi Räikkönen hung up his helmet, Formula 1 has had a vacancy for a super-quick, super-chilled superstar. It’s early days yet for Oscar Piastri but the McLaren rookie is as cool as you like while being blisteringly quick…

WORDS OLEG KARPOV

“YEAH, NOT THE BEST PACE I’VE EVER DISPLAYED IN THE WORLD, BUT I’LL ENJOY THE TROPHY FOR NOW” NO SCREAMS, NO GASPS, NO UNINTELLIGIBLE exclamations, no tearful hyperbole for the commercial rights holder to splash across its social channels. Just the usual calm and measured message from Oscar Piastri to his engineer on the team radio – only this time it was in response to securing his first-ever F1 podium, at Suzuka, one of the most challenging tracks on the calendar. To be fair, there was also a bit of a “woohoo”, but it was more befitting of getting a tricky pub-quiz question right than reaching a career milestone. Kimi Räikkönen might appear an impulsive extrovert at times compared with McLaren’s Australian rookie. “He’s very methodical,” Mark Webber, Piastri’s compatriot and manager, tells…

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