Montoya: “80% of the driver’s performance comes from his head, Piastri overcame the shock of 2026 by surrounding himself with the right people”

Super weekend for Piastri in Japan Welcome back Oscar. After several dull performances between 2025 and the beginning of 2026, the McLaren driver in his beloved Suzuka returned to raise his head, obtaining a very respectable second place as Piastri himself underlined. Juan Pablo Montoya highlighted that the new structure of Piastri’s entourage was most likely the key to returning the best version of Oscar to F1 and McLaren: “80% of a driver’s performance in F1 is now all a mental question – said Montoya reached by Casinostugan – after last year’s shock Piastri is surrounding himself with the right people”. “Mark Webber is an excellent ‘supporter’, a calm manager, but he also understood that it wasn’t enough – added Montoya – now with Piastri there is an engineer who had worked with him in F2 in Prema, he is surrounding himself with the right people. It was written in stone that Norris would have won the 2025 World Championship, but as much as Piastri expected it, it is still difficult to metabolise”.