Piastri shuns 'Ice Boy' name after latest pole

Oscar Piastri has acquired a estimation for keeping chill nether pressure, but don't telephone him "Ice Boy."

The Australian, starring the Formula 1 title for ascendant McLaren, was offered the nickname aft taking rod position with a mighty thigh successful the vigor of qualifying for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix.

A newsman suggested Piastri could beryllium the progeny of Finnish "Iceman" Kimi Raikkonen, the 2007 satellite champion for Ferrari, specified was his nonchalant attitude.

"I'm not definite I privation to spell nether the sanction 'Ice Boy,'" replied the Australian, raising a laughter from others successful the room.

"I deliberation the emotions are antithetic each time. Certainly, there's been qualifyings and races wherever it's not been nonchalant and there's been a batch of emotion down them.

"But past there's others wherever you spell retired and you cognize that if you bash a bully capable job, you tin execute the effect you want.

"Don't get maine wrong, it's incredibly satisfying, but I deliberation I'm conscionable not a peculiarly affectional person. That's conscionable however I am, really."

Piastri added that helium could person his affectional moments but helium besides knew that Saturday was lone portion of the occupation done and the existent celebrating could hold until aft Sunday's race.

The 24-year-old, calved successful Melbourne and schooled successful England, has won 4 of the 8 races this play and Saturday was his 4th rod of the campaign.

He is 3 points wide of teammate Lando Norris, who won from rod successful Monaco past Sunday to adjacent the gap, but has shown nary motion of feeling the pressure.

"It's a bully happening to have, starting connected pole, but it's not the extremity of the weekend. The points are tomorrow. After the races, it depends a spot connected the race," said Piastri.

"If you've had a conflict with idiosyncratic the full contention and past you win, past yeah, you're beauteous pumped up. But if you've got a spot of a gap, past you benignant of cognize with a fewer laps to spell that it's going to spell your way, and past it doesn't spill implicit truthful much."