Oscar Piastri's masterful Spa-Francorchamps win was reminiscent of Daniel Ricciardo's finest F1 drive back in 2014, writes Mark Hughes
Oscar Piastri's masterclass drive at Spa last weekend had a resonance with that of his countryman Daniel Ricciardo 11 years earlier. There's a lot of recency bias in how Ricciardo is remembered, with his comeback at AlphaTauri in 2022-23 as he tried to put the career back on the rails it had fallen off at McLaren in 2021-22. As such it's easy to forget just how formidable he was in his peak years. His 2014 victory was deeply impressive in how, after catching and passing team-mate Sebastian Vettel, he contained his pace as a faster car – Nico Rosberg's Mercedes – rapidly caught him, but going just fast enough to ensure the faster car wouldn't quite reach him before the end. Then, once it was clear he was safe with a lap to go, he produced a lap around 0.5sec faster, just to show what he'd had in hand...
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