The Australian has two podium finishes in his F1 debut season. He is relishing the competition with the world’s best drivers
“It’s a big privilege to call this a job as it certainly doesn’t feel like one,” Oscar Piastri says of racing in Formula One, with a pleasing absence of bravado. Sunday may be his first race at the Mexican Grand Prix but it will be a challenge he faces undaunted. In his first season of F1 and still only 22, the Australian rookie has been revelatory.
When McLaren finally gave him the tools to do the job, Piastri demonstrated both the skill and character traits that mark him out as a driver destined for so much more. At McLaren he is already being mentioned favourably in comparison with Fernando Alonso and Michael Schumacher.