FIELD	VALUE
TEAM	McLaren
COUNTRY	Australia
PODIUMS	28
CAREER POINTS	919
GRANDS PRIX ENTERED	82
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS	0
POLE POSITIONS	6
HIGHEST RACE FINISH	1 (x9)
HIGHEST GRID POSITION	1 (x6)
DATE OF BIRTH	06/04/2001
PLACE OF BIRTH	Melbourne, Victoria

Oscar Piastri was born on April 6, 2001 in Melbourne, Australia. Prior to beginning his professional motorsport career, he displayed an exceptional passion for motorsport from an early age, progressing through karting before making his single-seater debut in 2017. He won three consecutive junior championships — Formula Renault Eurocup (2019), FIA Formula 3 (2020) and FIA Formula 2 (2021) — before joining McLaren for his Formula 1 debut in 2023.

Oscar Piastri began competing in karting in his native Australia, quickly establishing himself as one of the country's top junior talents. He moved into single-seaters in 2017 with the New South Wales Single-Seater Championship, before taking on Formula 4 in 2018 and catching the eye of European teams with multiple victories. In 2019, he joined R-ace GP in the Formula Renault Eurocup and won the title at his first attempt, announcing himself on the international stage.

In 2020, Piastri joined Prema Racing in FIA Formula 3 and won that championship too. He then graduated to FIA Formula 2 in 2021 with the same team and became champion again — an unprecedented hat-trick of junior titles in consecutive seasons. His performances attracted the attention of Alpine, who signed him as their reserve and development driver for 2022 before McLaren secured him for a full Formula 1 race seat from 2023 onwards.

2023

Oscar Piastri made his Formula 1 debut with McLaren in 2023 and quickly demonstrated why he had been one of motorsport's most anticipated rookies. He adapted to F1 machinery faster than most and secured his first podium at the Italian Grand Prix. Despite being in a team mid-transformation, he scored consistently and finished ninth in the Drivers' Championship with 97 points — a strong foundation for what was to come.

2024

Piastri took his first Formula 1 victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix and added a second at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. He accumulated eight podiums across the season and finished fourth in the Drivers' Championship with 292 points. His consistency throughout the year contributed to McLaren's Constructors' Championship triumph — their first since 1998.

2025

He led the championship for 189 days. Won seven races, took six poles, delivered a grand chelem at Zandvoort that McLaren hadn't managed since 1988. For fifteen rounds he looked like the most complete driver on the grid. Then it unraveled. Monza was the turning point: the team asked him to hand second place back to Norris after a pit stop call went his way, he complied, and something shifted after that. Azerbaijan brought two crashes. Austin, Mexico and Las Vegas were weekends to forget. Norris took the lead in Mexico and never gave it back. Piastri finished third in the standings, 13 points behind his own teammate. Seven wins, 410 points, and a title that was genuinely his to lose. He'll be back.

2026

2026 has been a mixed season so far. Piastri failed to start in both Australia and China, but bounced back immediately with back-to-back podiums in Japan (2nd) and Miami (3rd). Solid points finishes followed through the European swing — Barcelona-Catalunya and Belgium both yielded fifth place, with a stronger fourth in Austria — while Monaco brought a fourth-place result after a post-race review restored positions McLaren and Red Bull had appealed. A retirement in Hungary broke the run, and he closed out the Netherlands weekend with a sixth. A tidy fifth at Monza was followed by a painful Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid, where contact from George Russell on the opening lap left him with front wing damage and only an eighth-place finish to show for it. Through fourteen rounds he sits seventh in the championship with 120 points, a season built on consistency rather than the outright pace that carried him to the brink of the title in 2025.

YEAR	POS.	TEAM	CHASIS	ENGINE	TYRES	VIC.	POLE	V.R.	POINTS	GPS
2026	7	MCLAREN	MCL40	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	0	0	0	120	14
2025	3	MCLAREN	MCL39	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	7	6	6	410	24
2024	4	MCLAREN	MCL38	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	2	0	1	292	24
2023	9	MCLAREN	MCL60	MERCEDES	PIRELLI	0	0	2	97	22

RACE	DATE	TEAM	ENGINE	POS	PTS
AUSTRALIA	08 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNS	0
CHINA	15 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNS	3
JAPAN	29 MAR	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	2	18
MIAMI	03 MAY	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	3	22
CANADA	24 MAY	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	11	5
MONACO	07 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	4	12
BARCELONA-CATALUNYA	14 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	5	10
AUSTRIA	28 JUN	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	4	12
GREAT BRITAIN	05 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	11	2
BELGIUM	19 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	5	10
HUNGARY	26 JUL	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	DNF	0
NETHERLANDS	23 AUG	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	6	12
ITALY	06 SEP	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	5	10
SPAIN	13 SEP	MCLAREN	MERCEDES	8	4