NEW DELHI: Oscar Piastri’s mid-season slump in form has cost him the Formula 1 championship lead, and 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes the Australian’s recent struggles are a sign that he has already reached his peak performance level.

Speaking on Sky Sports’ The F1 Show ahead of the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, Villeneuve said Piastri’s inability to keep pace with his McLaren teammate Lando Norris in recent weeks stems from the fact that he was already performing at the limit earlier in the season. “We didn’t have an extremely fantastic Lando early in the season, not the Lando we had at the end of last year,” Villeneuve explained. “And we kept saying, ‘oh, that’s because Piastri has stepped up, he’s now on Lando’s pace and even quicker.’ But was it actually Piastri stepping up o

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