Oscar Piastri's world F1 title hopes may already be officially over -- but, ever optimistic, he's still hoping to be "back in the fight a bit more" for race honours at the Singapore Grand Prix.
Australia's big hope, who's endured a trying season attempting to get to grips with his erratic, under-performing McLaren while adapting his driving style, has long since been out of the title race but that was confirmed, mathematically, in Malaysia last weekend when he came home sixth in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
That put him an unassailable 192 points adrift of runaway championship leader Kimi Antonelli, in seventh place with seven races left. Such a scenario would have seemed unthinkable after his third-place finish in last year's title race, which saw him in contention even in the very last race.
