Melbourne-born Oscar Piastri can have his personal grandstand at subsequent yr’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 received extra grands prix in a single season than another Australian driver because the world championship began in 1950, with six thus far in 2025.
“It feels very surreal and I by no means thought this might occur, however the assist is unbelievable and I can not wait to see all of it come collectively subsequent March,” he stated on X., exterior
The grandstand shall be on the principle straight, reverse the pit lane.
“Seeing all of the followers in my very own grandstand instantly reverse the McLaren storage goes to be a tremendous expertise and I am actually wanting ahead to feeling the vitality and the environment,” 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 whole however has but to make the rostrum in three makes an attempt in Australia, joins the rising listing 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 house 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.
