The Alpine Academy driver was a part of the crew’s race help employees on the Friday of the Hungarian GP weekend, working late into the evening conducting setup work on Alpine’s simulator on the crew’s Enstone base.
At the moment in his second yr of the programme, the FIA System 2 Championship chief has stepped up his simulator duties with the crew this season.
Piastri then headed to Monza to undertake the newest take a look at in Alpine’s R.S.18 F1 programme that befell on Monday. The Australian was on the Italian circuit with the take a look at crew on Sunday watching Ocon’s run to victory on the Hungaroring unfold on the observe’s huge display.
“I did a few days within the sim so I used to be really on the race help crew on the Friday evening, that was a late one,” Piastri advised MSTV Stay.
“I’m not going to take any credit score for it as a result of the carnage helped a bit, however then Esteban did an excellent job after that. I’ll give myself a bit little bit of credit score if that’s allowed.
“I’ve been within the sim this week additionally, so it has been a busy week.
“It’s superior [to be a part of it], like I stated I don’t actually need to take any credit score for that as a result of if there was 100 good issues that make a win, I used to be possibly 0.1 of these issues.
Esteban Ocon, Alpine A521, 1st place, takes victory
Photograph by: Jerry Andre / Motorsport Images
“However once more it was actually cool to be right here and be with the take a look at crew and see their laborious work paying off, and it’s good to know I performed a really very minor function within the victory.
“I used to be really already in Monza as I did the F1 take a look at on Monday. I watched it on the large display at Monza with the blokes from the take a look at crew, so it was fairly particular to share that with them.
“We didn’t have any audio, and if there was it was in French or Italian, however we may work out what was occurring by taking a look at he leaderboard.”
Piastri just isn’t the one F2 driver to have pushed a F1 automobile this week as ART Grand Prix’s Theo Pourchaire skilled his maiden take a look at in F1 equipment, piloting a 2019 specification Alfa Romeo on the Hungaroring on Wednesday.
The 17-year-old shared the day within the Alfa Romeo C38 with former F2 driver Mahaveer Raghunathan.
“Yesterday a dream got here true, I drove for the primary time of my life a System 1 automobile,” Pourchaire posted on Twitter.
“I keep in mind dreaming of that day as a child. I wish to thank the entire Alfa Romeo crew for this wonderful expertise and unforgettable day.”