Is Piastri cracking under pressure?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
We ask if Oscar Piastri is cracking under the pressure of an intense world championship fight in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Diego Mejia and Ben Anderson join Edd Straw to evaluate the reasons behind Oscar Piastri’s current slump, and whether or not it’s part of a wider trend that will cost him the world championship.
That includes looking at the effect of the intensity of the title fight, his struggle for pace in Austin and Mexico and also what we can expect from him in the final four events.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Race is on, and with Oscar Piestri's six-month stint at the head of the championship |
| 0:17.1 | at an end, we ask what's gone wrong and if he's cracking under the intense pressure |
| 0:20.7 | of a title fight. I'm Ed Straw and joining me to dissect the McLaren driver's recent struggles |
| 0:25.3 | and what it means for the run-in are Diego Mechia and Ben Anderson. Well, welcome to the race |
| 0:31.5 | F-1 podcast presented by eBay. Diego, it's been far too long since we've had you on this podcast, |
| 0:37.1 | as many listeners will know, |
| 0:38.4 | you're the voice of the race in Spanish on YouTube, at a very busy weekend in Mexico, of course, |
| 0:43.0 | given your star status in the Latam region. Now, Oscar Piastri, his struggles in Mexico were a big |
| 0:50.6 | storyline. To paraphrase a question we've been getting a lot recently, |
| 0:55.1 | is the long-time points leader cracking under pressure? Well, thanks for the introduction, |
| 1:01.6 | Ed, Ben. Certainly not as a star as a driver in Mexico, but I can tell you that Mexican fans do appreciate the adaptation we do of the |
| 1:15.1 | race YouTube channel in Spanish. |
| 1:19.3 | They all like the great content that you guys create every week. |
| 1:24.6 | And actually, whenever we premiere an episode, every week, I get the comment, |
| 1:32.3 | time for my favorite soap opera. They then, yeah, they battle to be the first to comment on |
| 1:38.9 | every, on every video. So, yeah, it's a great work that you guys do also. Luke and Nathan on the on the |
| 1:45.5 | video side. We're closing on 200,000 subscribers and almost most of the videos are hitting 100,000 |
| 1:52.1 | marks. So that's, that's only a sign that they actually like and enjoy this content a lot. |
| 1:57.6 | So going back to your question, yeah, we have seen probably many enforced errors from |
| 2:03.4 | Oscar since the end of the European season. |
| 2:05.9 | We have to go back to the multiple crashes in Baku. |
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