Oscar Piastri is under pressure "for a reason" ahead of his Formula 1 debut as commentators compared his situation to those of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen before him.
The Aussie is one of three drivers coming into their rookie F1 seasons this year. But neither of the other two have had quite as much focus upon them as the weeks and days tick down to the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Part of it is, undoubtedly, that he is racing for a team with strong ambition in McLaren. But the main cause of all the interest in Piastri is the way in which he joined his new team from the Alpine academy, in the stand-out story from 2022 silly season.
