{"id":8483,"date":"2025-05-31T13:24:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-rejects-ice-boy-after-securing-pole-position-at-the-spanish-gp\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:24:49","slug":"piastri-rejects-ice-boy-after-securing-pole-position-at-the-spanish-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-rejects-ice-boy-after-securing-pole-position-at-the-spanish-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri Rejects &#8220;Ice Boy&#8221; After Securing Pole Position at the Spanish GP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Piastri Rejects &#8220;Ice Boy&#8221; Nickname After Securing Pole in Spain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian driver Oscar Piastri, Formula 1 championship leader for McLaren, has rejected the nickname &#8220;Ice Boy&#8221;, despite his reputation for remaining calm under pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Piastri took pole position with an impressive lap in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix.<\/p>\n\n\nA reporter suggested that Piastri could be the successor to the &#8220;Iceman&#8221; Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari&#8217;s 2007 world champion, due to his seemingly calm demeanor.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m not sure I want to use the name &#8216;Ice Boy&#8217;.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Piastri explained that his emotions vary in each race and qualifying. Although sometimes he remains calm, he acknowledges that on other occasions he feels a lot of emotion.<\/p>\n\n\nThe pilot added that, although he feels satisfaction for his achievements, he is not a particularly emotional person.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0531%2Fr1500711_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Oscar Piastri logr\u00f3 la pole position para el Gran Premio de Espa\u00f1a.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Piastri also mentioned that, although he may have emotional moments, he knows that Saturday is only part of the job and that the real celebration should wait until after Sunday&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n\n\nThe 24-year-old driver, born in Melbourne and educated in England, has won four of the eight races this season and this is his fourth pole of the championship.\n\n\n<p>Currently, he has a three-point advantage over teammate Lando Norris, who won from pole in Monaco last Sunday, but Piastri has shown no signs of feeling the pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s a good thing to have, starting on pole, but it&#8217;s not the end of the weekend. The points are tomorrow. After the races, it depends a little bit on the race.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Piastri explained that, depending on the competition in the race, the celebration can be more or less effusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piastri Rejects &#8220;Ice Boy&#8221; Nickname After Securing Pole in Spain Australian driver Oscar Piastri, Formula 1 championship leader for McLaren, has rejected the nickname &#8220;Ice Boy&#8221;, despite his reputation for remaining calm under pressure. Piastri took pole position with an impressive lap in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. A reporter suggested that Piastri could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[442,176,179,3022],"class_list":{"0":"post-8483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-formula-1","9":"tag-oscar-piastri","10":"tag-pole-position","11":"tag-spanish-grand-prix"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}