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Oscar Jack Piastri (born 6 April 2001) is an Australian racing driver, currently competing in Formula One for McLaren. Graduating from karting to junior formulae in 2016, Piastri won his first championship at the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup with R-ace GP .
Piastri was one of nine different race winners from 18 races, taking two victories and a further four podiums for PREMA Racing, clinching the title in a tense season finale. He did this despite never taking pole, instead relying on astute tyre management, raw pace and consistency. The latter of those is arguably his strongest, most defining ...
Jun 4, 2001 · So impressive was Piastri that two F1 teams squabbled over his services for 2023, adding a new dimension to the driver market and so-called ‘silly season’. McLaren, and not long-time backers Alpine, won out and their rookie repaid them in spades, taking two podiums in a highly impressive debut campaign. 1 / 3. Oscar Piastri.
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Age. Height. Position. Points. Car No. Oscar Piastri is an Australian racing driver, born in Melbourne on 6 April 2001. He was a Formula 1 rookie for the 2023 season, and along with Lando Norris ...
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A 15-year-old Piastri, who came sixth in the CIK-FIA World Karting Championship for OK-Junior karts earlier in the year, makes his car racing debut at Yas Marina Circuit in the second round of the new Formula 4 United Arab Emirates championship. He finishes sixth, and follows it up later that day with a fifth place as future rival Logan Sargeant ta...
Arden names a four-strong line-up in British F4, with sophomore Ayrton Simmons joined by rookies Yves Baltas and Piastri. Olli Caldwell is also signed but does not debut until turning 15 halfway through the season.
Piastri’s first car racing win comes in the reversed-grid Oulton Park race, which is a battle between himself and Sargeant after he makes a few mistakes in the lead. The pressure from Sargeant is ultimately relinquished when the race is red flagged due to a crash.
Two rounds later at Snetterton, Piastri demonstrates his potential to be involved in the title fight by taking two pole positions and converting the first of those into a win later that day. On Sunday he repeats the feat.
Piastri makes his Formula Renault 2.0 debut with Arden in the FR Northern European Cup finale at Hockenheim, and comes eighth in both races.
After finishing as runner-up in British F4, Caroline steps up to FR2.0 full-time with Arden to contest the FR Eurocup.
Piastri and highly rated team-mate Sami Taoufik perform far worse than expected as FR2.0 rookies, with Piastri bagging three podiums and a lowly eighth in the Eurocup standings. For his second season, he signs with the crack R-ace GP team.
A switch to Formula Regional technical regulations doesn’t shake up the Eurocup’s competitive order too much, and Piastri’s first pole and win came in round two at Silverstone. Qualifying took place on a drying track and he mastered the conditions to be quickest, but he lost the lead to team-mate Alexander Smolyar in the race and it was only after ...
In a critical weekend for the title fight between Piastri and MP Motorsport’s Victor Martins, Piastri spins off on the sighting lap for Saturday’s race at the Hungaroring and is unable to start. However rainy conditions means it only runs for three laps and Martins gets half-points for victory, then on Sunday Piastri bounces back by dominating qual...
There’s a lot of interest in Prema’s FIA Formula 3 seats after it dominates the inaugural season of the championship, and it can only trial so many drivers in the post-season test at Valencia’s Ricardo Tormo circuit. Piastri makes the shortlist of five.
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Dec 31, 2022 · Oscar Piastri will become the 18th Australian driver to have raced in Formula 1 when he makes his debut for McLaren in 2023. Part of the network. ... Piastri was less than a year old, but ended ...
Sep 3, 2022 · McLaren. Oscar Piastri is considered by many in the paddock as a star of the future. On the outside, he comes across as relaxed and charming. Inside is a confident, talented and determined driver laser focused on honing himself into a world class Formula 1 driver. It was surprising to some, then, that when Alpine announced the Australian would ...
