Epic Crossover: Oscar Piastri Teaches Glenn Maxwell How To Drive An F1 Car

In one of the best crossovers of 2025, Australian Formula One driver Oscar Piastri helped cricketer Glenn Maxwell learn how to drive an F1 car on a simulator. In a video released on Monday (December 29), Piastri is seen helping Maxwell learn the nitty-gritty of the highly complicated F1 car driving.

The video is full of typical Australian banter right from the start when Piastri tells Maxwell that they have chosen the simulator because it’s not as expensive as an actual F1 car to crash. Maxwell fails horribly at the start — much like anyone else with limited experience of F1 cars would do — with several hilarious crashes.

Piastri then helps him by turning on the race assists, which help the steering and give him the exact racing lines to follow,

with even indicators to when to start braking before a corner. Arguably, the best moment of the video came when Piastri noticed that Maxwell didn’t have his left leg on the brake paddle, instead keeping it casually on the side as if he were driving a normal car on a highway instead of a super high-speed sim.

Watch it here:

Cricket meets F1 🤝

F1 Sim-plified with Oscar. @OscarPiastri links up with cricket legend @Gmaxi_32 for a masterclass lesson around Albert Park in an @McLarenF1 F1 car 🏎️🔥#f1 #cricket pic.twitter.com/eQubn4mAz3

— QUAD LOCK (@QuadLockCase) December 29, 2025

While Maxwell’s limited F1 knowledge was clear to see, Piastri is a big cricket fan. He has spoken a lot about his love for the sport and was even present at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the fourth Ashes Test, though most conversations revolved around his third-placed finish in the 2025 Drivers’ Championship, behind McLaren teammate and first-time champion Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

“Obviously it was intense, but I think looking back on it, on the whole, [I’m] incredibly proud of what I was able to do, what we were able to achieve as a team,” Piastri said at the ground. “You know, to have a car as dominant as we did… Obviously the back-end of the season, a few hurdles and a few obstacles, but when I look back on my season, there’s definitely things to work on, things to learn. And a lot of lessons learned there. But overall, just very proud of the work I put in.”