Oscar Piastri, a talented Australian racing driver is currently competing in Formula One for McLaren and has won numerous accolades, setting impressive records along the way.
| Nationality | Australian |
|---|---|
| Born | Oscar Jack Piastri 6 April 2001 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in / 1.78m |
| Weight | 68kg |
Born in 2001, he quickly ascended through the motorsport ranks, establishing himself as one of the brightest talents in Formula One. His career began in karting, but by 2016, Piastri had graduated to junior formulae, where he started collecting championships at an astonishing pace.
Piastri’s first major success came in 2019 when he won the Formula Renault Eurocup. Competing in a highly competitive field, Piastri secured seven race victories and claimed the championship by a significant margin. This victory marked his first major step on the international stage, putting him on the radar of Formula One teams and talent scouts.
In 2020, Piastri joined Prema Racing, one of the most successful teams in junior formulae, to compete in the FIA Formula 3 Championship. In his rookie season, Piastri won the championship after a dramatic final race in Mugello, securing the title by just three points. His success continued into 2021 when he graduated to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, again with Prema Racing. In his debut season, Piastri dominated the field, winning six races and claiming the championship with two rounds to spare. This made him the sixth driver in history to win the GP2/Formula 2 title in their rookie season and solidified his reputation as a future Formula One star. His back-to-back titles in FIA Formula 3 and Formula 2 were a rare feat, making him the only driver in history to win Formula Renault, Formula Three, and Formula Two championships in successive seasons.
During his junior career, Piastri was snapped up as a member of the Alpine Academy, a program designed to develop young drivers for a future in Formula One. From 2020 to 2021, he served as a test and reserve driver for the Alpine team while competing in junior categories. Despite being a promising candidate for a future race seat at Alpine, a contract dispute at the end of 2022 saw Piastri part ways with the team. This dispute would ultimately lead to Piastri securing a race seat with McLaren for the 2023 season.
Piastri made his Formula One debut with McLaren in 2023, partnering with Lando Norris. Despite the pressure of racing for one of the most iconic teams in the sport and going up against a highly-rated teammate, Piastri quickly adapted, including his first podium finish at the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix.
At the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, Piastri clinched his inaugural Sprint race victory, having secured pole position in the sprint shootout. In the Grand Prix race on the same weekend, he crossed the line in second place, outperforming teammate Norris, with his highest finish in Formula 1. He finished a mere 4.8 seconds behind the reigning champion, Max Verstappen.
Retaining his seat for 2024, Piastri continued to impress, securing his maiden Formula One win at the 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix, followed by a second win at the 2024 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. These victories made Piastri the fifth Australian driver to win an F1 Grand Prix,
2025: Three-way title battle vs. Norris and Verstappen
McLaren entered the 2025 season as championship favourites, with Piastri widely expected to challenge teammate Lando Norris for the World Drivers’ Championship. Three days before the season opener, McLaren announced a multi-year contract extension for Piastri through at least the end of 2028.
Piastri qualified on the front row for the Australian Grand Prix alongside Norris and briefly challenged for the lead before spinning in wet conditions, ultimately finishing ninth. He rebounded in China by finishing second in the sprint before taking his maiden pole position and dominating the Grand Prix to secure his first victory of the season. He followed this with third place in Japan behind Max Verstappen and Norris.
In Bahrain, Piastri claimed pole position and cruised to victory by over 15 seconds, closing to within three points of Norris in the standings. A further win in Saudi Arabia made him the first Australian to lead the World Drivers’ Championship since 2010. After finishing second in the Miami sprint following a late safety car, he won the Grand Prix. From pole at Emilia-Romagna, he finished third after losing positions at the first corner and through strategy. He returned to the top step at the Spanish Grand Prix and finished fourth in Canada, where Norris crashed while attempting to pass him, extending Piastri’s championship lead to 22 points.
A title fight with Norris intensified in Austria, where Piastri finished second after a race-long battle, narrowly avoiding contact late in the race. At the British Grand Prix, he led much of the wet race before receiving a penalty for inadvertently brake-testing Verstappen on a restart, conceding victory to Norris. He finished second to Verstappen from pole in the Belgian sprint, before winning the wet–dry Grand Prix after overtaking Norris at the exit of Raidillon.
Piastri qualified second ahead of Norris in Hungary but was beaten to victory by his teammate’s one-stop strategy. At the Dutch Grand Prix, he took pole and controlled the race until Norris retired with an engine failure, securing his first grand chelem and extending his championship lead to 34 points. Verstappen re-emerged as a distant contender in Italy, where Piastri finished third after being instructed to relinquish second place to Norris following a slow pit stop.
His campaign faltered in Azerbaijan, where a qualifying crash left him ninth on the grid; a jump start, stall, and first-lap accident resulted in his first retirement in 45 Grands Prix, allowing Norris and Verstappen to significantly close the gap. In Singapore, first-lap contact with Norris dropped him to fourth as McLaren clinched the Constructors’ Championship with six races remaining.
Further setbacks followed in the United States, where a first-corner collision with Norris in the sprint led to both retiring, and Piastri finished fifth in the Grand Prix as Verstappen and Norris narrowed his lead. He again finished fifth in Mexico City after starting seventh, dropping behind Norris in the standings. In São Paulo, Norris dominated the weekend while Piastri crashed out of third in the sprint and was penalised in the Grand Prix for a collision that dropped him from second to fifth.
Piastri was initially classified fourth in Las Vegas before both he and Norris were disqualified for skid-block wear, leaving him level on points with Verstappen. He won the Qatar sprint from pole but finished second in the Grand Prix after a strategic error allowed Verstappen to take victory, leaving Piastri third in the standings, two points behind Verstappen.
At the season finale in Abu Dhabi, Piastri qualified third and finished second. With Verstappen winning and Norris finishing third, Piastri concluded the season third in the World Drivers’ Championship, 13 points behind champion Norris. He ended the year with seven victories and 16 podiums—both records for an Australian driver—surpassing Daniel Ricciardo’s career win tally and equalling Mark Webber’s total. Piastri later described the season as one he could be “proud” of, while media commentary characterised it as a “mighty rise, but uncontrollable fall.”
Oscar Piastri Formula One World Championship career
| F1 Career | 2023-Ongoing |
|---|---|
| Teams | McLaren |
| Driver Number | 81 |
| Entries | Ongoing |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 9 |
| Podiums | 26 |
| Career points | Ongoing |
| Pole positions | 6 |
| Fastest laps | 9 |
| First entry | 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix |
| First win | 2024 Hungarian Grand Prix |
| Last win | 2025 Dutch Grand Prix |
| Last entry | Ongoing |
Oscar Piastri Wins
Oscar Piastri Teammates
| 4 drivers | Involvement | First Year | Last Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lando Norris | 71 | 2023 | 2026 |
| Patricio O’Ward | 5 | 2023 | 2025 |
| Ryo Hirakawa | 1 | 2024 | |
| Alex Dunne | 2 | 2025 |
Oscar Piastri Complete Formula One Results
| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | WDC | Points |
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| 2023 | McLaren F1 Team | McLaren MCL60 | Mercedes-AMG M14 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | BHR Ret | SAU 15 | AUS 8 | AZE 11 | MIA 19 | MON 10 | ESP 13 | CAN 11 | AUT 16 | GBR 4 | HUN 5 | BEL Ret 2 | NED 9 | ITA 12 | SIN 7 | JPN 3 | QAT 2 1 | USA Ret | MXC 8 | SAP 14 | LVG 10 | ABU 6 | 9th | 97 | ||
| 2024 | McLaren F1 Team | McLaren MCL38 | Mercedes-AMG M15 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | BHR 8 | SAU 4 | AUS 4 | JPN 8 | CHN 8 7 | MIA 13 6 | EMI 4 | MON 2 | CAN 5 | ESP 7 | AUT 2 2 | GBR 4 | HUN 1 | BEL 2 | NED 4 | ITA 2 | AZE 1 | SIN 3 | USA 5 | MXC 8 | SAP 8 2 | LVG 7 | QAT 3 1 | ABU 10 | 4th | 292 |
| 2025 | McLaren F1 Team | McLaren MCL39 | Mercedes-AMG M16 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | AUS 9 | CHN 1 2 | JPN 3 | BHR 1 | SAU 1 | MIA 1 2 | EMI 3 | MON 3 | ESP 1 | CAN 4 | AUT 2 | GBR 2 | BEL 1 2 | HUN 2 | NED 1 | ITA 3 | AZE Ret | SIN 4 | USA 5 | MXC 5 | SAP 5 | LVG DSQ | QAT 2 1 | ABU 2 | 3rd | 410 |
| 2026 | McLaren F1 Team | McLaren MCL40 | Mercedes-AMG M17 E Performance 1.6 V6 t | AUS | CHN | JPN | BHR | SAU | MIA | CAN | MON | ESP | AUT | GBR | BEL | HUN | NED | ITA | MAD | AZE | SIN | USA | MXC | SAP | LVG | QAT | ABU | – | – |
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