Oscar Piastri has overcome the protection of McLaren Lando Norris teammate after Briton was accused of being “weak” by former former A Alan Jones World Champion.

Jones praised his Australian friend as a future world champion after dish He got the championship lead with his third victory of the Grand Prix of the season in Saudi Arabia two weekends ago.

But the piastri, which is 10 points clear Corrosion Entering the Miami Grand Prix this weekend, said: “Everyone is different. For me, the most important thing is to try to do things in the most natural style for you.

“When you try to do things that aren’t your natural way to be a person when things become cOnsfusing. It is when things start to go wrong.

“Everyone treats it differently. Lando treats it quite different in the way I treat it. Maybe a lot of emotions across the network that happen whether or not they are in public are probably quite similar.

“I think it’s just a kind of how we are connected as people and as competitors. Of course there are different emotions and different ways to deal with it. I don’t think there is a right or wrong way.

“Not very individual for the person. I am quite different perhaps at the other end of spectrum if this is what you think is the best way to light or trying to restore yourself, then go for it. “

Since winning the open season in Australia, Norris has fought with this year’s McLaren treatment.

He collapsed by qualifying in Jeddah, dedicating his hopes to the race and has fallen behind the championship as a result.

Jones, the 1980 champion, told Fox Sports this week that he thought Norris was mentally “a very weak person.

“He is coming up with all this folly that he has a mental thing.