If Oscar Piastri is going to break through for Australia’s first Formula One driver title in 45 years, it’s going to be the hard way.

The McLaren driver enters this weekend’s final round in Abu Dhabi trailing teammate Lando Norris and Red Bull’s four-time reigning champion Max Verstappen in the standings. Max Verstappen prepared to ‘maximise everything’ in F1 season-deciding finale Read more

The 24-year-old has had to overcome a curse from a fast food chain and dubious enforcement of the so-called papaya rules just to stay in the mix for the title, and his team were to blame for a strategy error that cost him victory last weekend in Qatar.

But a window for Piastri remains open, however narrow, for what would be one of the most unlikely final-round championship comebacks in For

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