Oscar Piastri

Isack Hadjar earns "team-mate points" after "exceptional comeback" in Baku, says Alex Brundle

Red Bull's Isack Hadjar earned crucial "team-mate points" following an "exceptional comeback" drive to third at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, according to F1 TV pundit Alex Brundle. Returning to the cockpit after a wrist injury with a newly signed Red Bull contract for 2027, Hadjar capitalised on a late lock-up from McLaren's Oscar Piastri to secure a double podium for the Milton Keynes outfit ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com15h ago

• neutral toward Isack Hadjar · 84%

Jacques Villeneuve calls out Oscar Piastri after costly Azerbaijan GP error: "Rookie mistake"

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve branded Oscar Piastri's Azerbaijan Grand Prix lock-up as a "rookie mistake". The Australian driver suffered a double lock-up during the race at the Baku City Circuit while he was running third. Defending from Red Bull's Isack Hadjar down the main straight, Piastri locked the brakes and went wide into the run-off area. The incident took him out of ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com22h ago

• neutral toward Oscar Piastri · 70%

Oscar Piastri: I need a tow bar to hook onto Mercedes to fight for Baku win

Having qualified third in Baku after enduring a difficult build-up to the main sessions, Oscar Piastri was happy with the grid position he earned for Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix. However, the McLaren driver thinks expecting to go much further in the race is unrealistic, given the gap to Mercedes. While the Australian lost just 0.001s to Charles Leclerc in Q3, the deficit to George ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com25 Sept

• neutral toward Oscar Piastri · 97%

What’s behind Lando Norris’ top-speed problem in Baku – and why McLaren itself is down on Mercedes

A technical problem caused a lack of top speed on Lando Norris’ McLaren Formula 1 car in Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying, with the reigning world champion down in fifth. Despite having outqualified team-mate Oscar Piastri 9-1 in the 10 previous sessions, Norris found himself three tenths’ adrift in Q3 – his worst deficit of the season. A lock-up in Q3 didn’t help, but as it happens ... Keep reading

Autosport25 Sept

• neutral toward Lando Norris · 95%

What’s behind Lando Norris’ top-speed problem in Baku – and why McLaren itself is down on Mercedes

A technical problem caused a lack of top speed on Lando Norris’ McLaren Formula 1 car in Azerbaijan Grand Prix qualifying, with the reigning world champion down in fifth. Despite having outqualified team-mate Oscar Piastri 9-1 in the 10 previous sessions, Norris found himself three tenths’ adrift in Q3 – his worst deficit of the season. A lock-up in Q3 didn’t help, but as it happens ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com25 Sept

• neutral toward McLaren · 94%

F1 Azerbaijan GP: Saturday schedule, weather forecast and how to watch

Formula 1 heads into Saturday in Baku with George Russell on pole and a major opportunity to cut into Kimi Antonelli championship lead after his Mercedes team-mate crashed out of qualifying. Russell dominated the final part of qualifying to take his fifth pole of the season, beating Charles Leclerc by more than eight tenths. Oscar Piastri starts third for McLaren, ahead of the returning Isack ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com25 Sept

Lando Norris: McLaren’s Baku deficit is a “knife in the heart”

Lando Norris has described McLaren’s lack of performance at Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix as “a little knife in the heart”. Norris took a lowly 14th in the opening practice session on Thursday, 1.6s slower than George Russell’s benchmark – although team-mate Oscar Piastri was just one second down. His deficit was 1.5s as he drove to sixth in FP2, with Red Bull and Ferrari ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com24 Sept

• critical toward Lando Norris · 67%

Jolyon Palmer suggests Oscar Piastri needs F1 reset in blunt Lando Norris comparison

Former Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer has suggested that McLaren's Oscar Piastri may need a winter reset after a difficult 2026 campaign. Piastri heads into this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix following an eighth-place finish at the Spanish Grand Prix, while his team-mate Lando Norris claimed pole position and built a decent lead before an ill-timed virtual safety car derailed his ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com23 Sept

• favorable toward Lando Norris · 78%

Andrea Stella: McLaren must help Oscar Piastri stop "thinking" about how to drive '26 F1 car

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Oscar Piastri's current deficit to Lando Norris is down to the Australian still "thinking and driving" with the 2026 Formula 1 machinery. Piastri's discomfort with the new breed of F1 cars has been evident throughout the season so far. It had become clear over the previous two years that his strengths lie in carrying speed through high-speed corners ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com15 Sept

“Pretty shocking”, “quite messy” – Oscar Piastri bewildered by poor Madring F1 qualifying

A downbeat Oscar Piastri described his Spanish Grand Prix qualifying as “shocking” and “messy”, having finished seventh while McLaren Formula 1 team-mate Lando Norris took pole position. Piastri has been struggling for pace all weekend at the new Madring track. Save for FP3, he failed to break into the top six in any practice session or qualifying segment in Madrid. Having been ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com13 Sept

Oscar Piastri shoots down Lando Norris sabotage theory

In the fraught final moments of qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, McLaren's plan was for Oscar Piastri to run ahead of team-mate Lando Norris on-track, giving him the benefit of a 'tow' on the straight. But Piastri locked a wheel into the first corner, ran over the asphalt run-off at the chicane, and aborted his lap. Naturally there were those who concluded that this was a ... Keep reading

Motorsport.com10 Sept

Huge crash knocks Leclerc out of F1 Italian GP

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix, bringing out the red flag after two racing laps at Monza. At the end of the second lap, Leclerc was defending fourth position from McLaren's Oscar Piastri when the Ferrari driver suffered a snap of oversteer and lost the rear of his Ferrari through the fast Parabolica right-hander. Leclerc spun in the outside ... Keep reading

Autosport6 Sept

How Piastri's Q3 mistake denied Norris "half a second" in Italian GP qualifying

Lando Norris believes he could have set a quicker lap in Monza qualifying had his team-mate Oscar Piastri not made a mistake in the closing moments of Italian Grand Prix qualifying, which may effectively have cost the defending Formula 1 world champion a few positions on the grid. Norris was ninth in qualifying, with his best Q3 lap coming on his first attempt. His 1m22.256s put him seventh in ... Keep reading

Autosport5 Sept

Piastri hit with three-place Italian GP grid penalty for impeding Lawson

Oscar Piastri has been handed a three-place grid penalty for the Italian Grand Prix after impeding Liam Lawson during qualifying at Monza. The penalty drops the McLaren driver from third to sixth on the grid for Sunday's race, promoting Charles Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen by one position each. The incident occurred in the dying moments of Q2, as Lawson - competing in his ... Keep reading

Autosport5 Sept