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Zak Brown admits Oscar Piastri needs to remove ‘race rustiness'

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has revealed that Oscar Piastri's first target at the Woking-based team is to 'get any of that race rustiness off him', with the Australian driver having not raced a car since the 2021 Formula 2 season finale. McLaren's newest signing spent the entirety of last season on the bench, with Alpine having failed to give the young Australian anytime behind the wheel of their 2022 challenger. The first experience he got of the new aerodynamic era of Formula 1 was when he drove for McLaren at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi, with the bulk of his time as Alpine's reserve driver having been spent trying to move to McLaren. Piastri was, of course, announced by Alpine as...
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