{"id":15092179,"date":"2026-03-31T14:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/why-the-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T00:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:34:34","slug":"why-the-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/why-the-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Japanese GP showed off the \u201cbest version\u201d of Oscar Piastri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri had a tough start to Formula 1\u2019s new era in 2026. But after a second-place finish in the Japanese Grand Prix, his McLaren boss Andrea Stella believes the \u201cbest version\u201d of the young Australian was on show last weekend.<br \/>Piastri failed to start the first two grands prix of the year after crashing on the way to the grid in Melbourne and being hit by a mechanical issue ahead of &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/why-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri\/10810061\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/why-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri\/10810061\/?utm_source=RSS&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&#038;utm_term=News&#038;utm_content=www\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Motorsport.com &#8211; All &#8211; Stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri had a tough start to Formula 1\u2019s new era in 2026. But after a second-place finish in the Japanese Grand Prix, his McLaren boss Andrea Stella believes the \u201cbest version\u201d of the young Australian was on show last weekend.<br \/>Piastri failed to start the first two grands prix of the year after crashing on the way to the grid in Melbourne and being hit by a mechanical issue ahead of &#8230;<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/f1\/news\/why-japanese-gp-showed-off-the-the-best-version-of-oscar-piastri\/10810061\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS-ALL&amp;utm_term=News&amp;utm_content=www\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15092181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15092179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",1200,799,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-620x413.jpg",620,413,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-768x511.jpg",768,511,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-940x626.jpg",940,626,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",1200,799,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",1200,799,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-998x665.jpg",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-670x446.jpg",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",1200,799,false],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-510x510.jpg",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren-160x160.jpg",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",24,16,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",48,32,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",96,64,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",150,100,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/15092179-oscar-piastri-mclaren.jpg",300,200,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/autos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Autos<\/a>","tag_info":"Autos","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092180,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092179\/revisions\/15092180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15092181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}