it will enter the World Endurance Championship hypercar class from 2027.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\nSeveral drivers in the F1 paddock are known to be keen on appearing in the 24-hour race, although not until their career in the pinnacle of motorsport is over. Piastri has a similar opinion.<\/p>\n
When asked if he would like to race at Le Mans, Piastri answered: “One day. But not for a while. I’m pretty happy in F1 at the moment.”<\/p>\n
The Australian driver has ruled out ever competing in Le Mans whilst still racing in F1, with the title contender believing both require, and “deserve”, full attention.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think you do either championship justice by trying to juggle both,” said Piastri.<\/p>\n
“It’s probably actually not that detrimental to your F1 championship, but when you’ve got a lot at stake, as we do right now, and also just not giving Le Mans the respect it deserves from a preparation standpoint, I think that is not something you want to go into with being under prepared.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“So I’ll wait until I’m done with what I want to do in F1 and then I’ll think about letting Zak give me a burn in a run.”<\/p>\n
Haas’ Ocon is another driver eager to race at Le Mans but is also part of the group that does not want to do it whilst in F1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Not quite yet, no,” said Ocon. “One day, definitely. I think, it’s the dream of every driver to race at Le Mans one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“As Oscar said, I’m very focused on my Formula 1 career at the moment, and looking at how many races we have, it’s going to be quite complicated to mix it all together.<\/p>\n
\u00a0“You can’t do a half-half, you need full [concentration] on both. That’s where my head is at the moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri and Esteban Ocon have raised a key problem stopping drivers from competing in the 24 Hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[859,4199,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,4200,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-f1-calendar","11":"tag-f1-live","12":"tag-f1-results","13":"tag-f1-standings","14":"tag-ferrari","15":"tag-formula-1","16":"tag-formula1","17":"tag-lewis-hamilton","18":"tag-max-verstappen","19":"tag-motorsport","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114419234476233922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}