Daniel Ricciardo’s Cheeky Image Shattered Amid Plaudits for Oscar Piastri With a 3-Word Accolade

Last year, the world saw the painful trading of drivers from the land down under when McLaren booted Daniel Ricciardo to replace him with his fellow Australian, Oscar Piastri. However, the blame game of Woking’s misfortunes with Ricciardo hasn’t gone in favor of McLaren considering the underwhelming zero-points haul of the papaya team in the first two races. An ex-F1 racer turned pundit has come ahead to still pick in Piastri ahead of Dany Ric. He also applauded the former’s sophistication.

Daniel Ricciardo is the smiling beast of F1. Even though, according to Christian Horner, the McLaren stint took that smile away, the man remains a fan favorite. However, the ex-Red Bull driver and Piastri’s manager, Mark Webber, has now favored the poised Piastri. On the F1 Nation’s Podcast, they asked Webber if he saw any elements of himself in a young Oscar at all. To which he had a three worded response separating Piastri from the Honey Badger and himself.

Mark Webber said, “My wife said he is the most sophisticated Australian that has gone overseas. Given that she is comparing him to Daniel and I, the bar is very low. The sophistication front of Daniel and I is a very, very low bar. I don’t think there is any comparison between myself and Oscar. It just shows a generation gap.”

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While on a low bar sophistication comparison, Piastri already seems victorious. He never expected to be victorious in managing points with the car he has.

Oscar Piastri disses his slow car after scoring his first points

After enduring the most horrible start of the year, much-awaited points for the orange team came at an incident-filled Australian Grand Prix. The team’s drivers saw a double-point haul with the rookie Oscar Piastri scoring his first points.

“To get this amount of points this early in the year, with the car that we’ve got at the moment, is a great result and obviously something we need,” said Piastri. “Definitely happy to get my first points on the board, especially here at home. It’s obviously not been a great first two races for the whole team, for largely things out of our control. Some more things out of our control went right today [and] it was nice to be on the good end of things going wrong.”

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