Oscar Piastri, the McLaren F1 driver, will have his own grandstand at the Australian Grand Prix in the city of Melbourne, where he was born in 2001. The 24-year-old is the current leader of the F1 Drivers’
Championship in the ongoing 2025 season by nine points, finding himself ahead of his McLaren teammate Lando Norris from Great Britain with 10 races still remaining in the calendar.
Notably, the F1 2025 season, Oscar Piastri has managed to win six races out of 13, becoming the first Australian driver to achieve this feat since the Drivers’ World Championship came into existence in 1950. With eight total race wins in F1, the Australian is fast becoming one of the most sought after drivers on the grid with his best still to come, although he is yet to secure a podium in his home race.
With his fourth Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne set to kick off the F1 2026 season on March 8, Oscar Piastri will be hoping to get the monkey off his back by winning it for the first-time ever in his young career. He is now set to join the list of current drivers with grandstands on the F1 Grand Prix calendar, which includes names like Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, and his McLaren teammate Lando Norris.
It feels very surreal and I never thought this would happen: Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri posted a video of himself on his official X account to share the news about getting a grandstand named after him at the Australian Grand Prix next year. He said, “It feels very surreal and I never thought this would happen, but the support is incredible and I can't wait to see it all come together next March. Seeing all the fans in my own grandstand directly opposite the McLaren garage is going to be an amazing experience and I'm really looking forward to feeling the energy and the atmosphere.”
Apart from Oscar Piastri, the other Australian drivers to have a grandstand named after them at Albert Park in Melbourne includes names like Jack Brabham, Alan Jones, Mark Webber, and Daniel Ricciardo. Moreover, the 14th race of the ongoing F1 2025 season is the Dutch Grand Prix, which will happen on August 31, at the Circuit Zandvoort in the Netherlands after the conclusion of the summer break.
