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Oscar Piastri will continue to work with mental coach Emma Murray this year. In her opinion, the McLaren driver needs to work on his ‘attachment’ to winning.
Piastri has reshuffled his management for 2026, bringing in former F2 engineer Pedro Matos. Mark Webber and his wife, Ann Neal, remain involved but will focus more on his commercial deals.
Murray has been working with Piastri since he was racing in the junior categories. For much of last season, her client was hailed as one of the most pressure-resistant drivers in F1.
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Piastri led the world championship by 34 points with a third of the season remaining, but ended up finishing third behind McLaren teammate Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
Why Oscar Piastri’s ‘attachment’ to winning F1 title was a problem
Speaking on Dobbo’s Podcast last year, Murray explained that Piastri needed to look beyond his F1 results when setting his objectives.
If the 24-year-old strives to reach a ‘world-class’ standard in everything he does, both at the race track and away from it, then success will naturally follow.
It has taken Piastri time to embrace that way of thinking, but after a series of high-profile errors, it could be argued that a degree of desperation crept into his driving.
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“When I was having this conversation with Oscar the other night, he actually laughed at one point,” Murray explained. “And I laughed. I get it, Oscar.
“I get that you’re like, ‘Are you kidding me? I want to win the world championship. Why the hell do I have to have any other purpose greater than that? What a joke. I just want to win.’
“I get that, but your desire to win and your attachment to the need to win is what’s derailing your performance. We have to untangle that so that you can win.”
Oscar Piastri admitted to brief loss of focus in F1 title fight
Piastri infamously crashed twice during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend and also jumped the start. Two rounds later in Austin, he was deemed predominantly responsible for a first-corner incident that took both McLaren drivers out of the race.
Piastri was penalised for causing a collision at the Sao Paulo GP, too, though that verdict was contentious. He didn’t truly stabilise his form until the final two rounds of the season, by which point Norris had already taken control of the title race.
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Reflecting on Baku, Piastri admitted that his focus wavered amid the furore over McLaren’s Monza team orders. There were external accusations that Zak Brown and Andrea Stella were favouring his teammate, though he never bought into that.
Fans were hoping for an insight into the post-Monza fallout on the latest season of Drive to Survive, but McLaren shut Netflix cameras out of their meetings with the two drivers.
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