Piastri jumps to defend teammate Norris' mentality after criticism: 'We're all wired that way'

Piastri's teammate Norris is known to be openly critical of himself and his actions in the car. The five-time Grand Prix winner is full of criticism for himself after making a mistake and is transparent when it comes to his mental health. The fact that he deals with this quite openly has also brought him his fair share of critics. Just recently, Australian world champion Alan Jones labelled Norris' mentality as 'weak' compared to Piastri, but the 24-year-old is not one to criticise his teammate. 

"I think weakness is something that needs to be considered when you start trying to do things that aren't your natural way of being a person, that's when things become confusing, and that's when things start to go wrong. So I think everyone handles that differently," Piastri explained to GPblog and others.

"I think Lando handles that quite differently to how I handle it," he explained. "But I think probably a lot of the emotions across the grid that happen regardless of whether they're in the public or not are probably pretty similar."

He continued: "I think that's just kind of how we're wired as people, as competitors, but you know obviously there's different emotions and different ways of dealing with that and you know I don't think there's a right or wrong way but I think it's very individual to the person."

Piastri has been praised for his cool and calm demeanour throughout his F1 career. Especially in 2025, where it's been needed the most. The Australian leads the championship by 16 points after the first quarter of the season. He has won the last three races consecutively, bringing a huge amount of momentum into the upcoming European triple header that kicks off at Imola next weekend.

"Lando knows himself much better than myself and probably all of us know," he concluded in the paddock at the Miami International Autodrome.