Melbourne-born Oscar Piastri can have his personal grandstand at subsequent 12 months’s Australian Grand Prix.
The 24-year-old is main this season’s drivers’ championship by 9 factors from McLaren team-mate Lando Norris with 10 races to go.
Piastri has already gained extra grands prix in a single season than some other Australian driver for the reason that world championship began in 1950, with six up to now in 2025.
“It feels very surreal and I by no means thought this is able to occur, however the help is unbelievable and I am unable to wait to see all of it come collectively subsequent March,” he stated on X., exterior
The grandstand might be on the principle straight, reverse the pit lane.
“Seeing all of the followers in my very own grandstand immediately reverse the McLaren storage goes to be an incredible expertise and I am actually wanting ahead to feeling the power and the ambiance,” he added.
The season-opening race at Albert Park in Melbourne takes place from 6-8 March 2026.
Piastri, who has eight profession victories in complete however has but to make the rostrum in three makes an attempt in Australia, joins the rising record of drivers on the grid with devoted grandstands.
Norris and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton every have stands on the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, with Hamilton’s positioned alongside the principle start-finish straight and Norris’ ‘Landostands’ at Stowe Nook.
4-time title winner Max Verstappen has grandstands named after him throughout the European leg of the F1 calendar, together with his dwelling Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
Different Australian drivers to be given the honour of a grandstand at Albert Park embody three-time world champion Jack Brabham, 1980 title-winner Alan Jones, plus Daniel Ricciardo and Mark Webber.
