{"id":109989,"date":"2025-09-01T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109989\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T03:26:09","slug":"mark-webber-praises-oscar-piastri-after-moving-up-winners-list-of-australian-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/109989\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Webber praises Oscar Piastri after moving up winners list of Australian drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is only a matter of time until Oscar Piastri<\/a> surpasses manager Mark Webber’s number of career F1 race wins – and the Australian great is not mad that it is about to happen.<\/p>\n

Piastri delivered a dominant performance on circuit Zandvoort, leading from start to finish to claim his seventh win of the season<\/a> and boost his lead in the world title fight.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old’s success in the Netherlands<\/a> also saw him match Webber’s nine career race wins and surpass Daniel Ricciardo, who had eight career wins.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri celebrates on the podium during the F1 Grand Prix of Netherlands.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Piastri’s win in the McLaren<\/a> also saw him etch his name into the history books as no other Australian racer has ever won seven races in one singular season. <\/p>\n

Jack Brabham previously held that record and also holds the one achievement Piastri is yet to achieve as he chases legendary status among Australian drivers, being the most career race wins with 14.<\/p>\n

Alan Jones, an Australian world champion, is also ahead of Piastri after chalking up 12 victories in his career.<\/p>\n

There is still time for Piastri’s season record to grow as there are nine races remaining – and Webber is confident he can tick off some more amazing feats.<\/p>\n

“It’s magnificent. He drove so well today,” Webber, who manages Piastri, told Sky Sports post-race.<\/p>\n

“I don’t do many interviews about him but I think today is a big day for Australian motorsport. We’ve had Daniel [Riccardo] win plenty, obviously Jack [Brabham] and AJ [Alan Jones], now Oscar.<\/p>\n

“Having this success so early in his career, is a real credit to him. He’s put a huge amount of work in, executed beautifully, and the team have done such a good job.”<\/p>\n

Webber admitted there had been “a lot of banter” between him and his client about the prospect of Piastri surpassing his career record of nine wins.<\/p>\n

He said he was “very happy” to see him match the feat at the Dutch Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

“He is on me now,” Webber laughed.<\/p>\n

“I’m very, very happy. I think he’s going to, hopefully, keep going up.”<\/p>\n

Even with a 34-point cushion in the world driver standings, Webber won’t let Piastri get comfortable, given Piastri’s teammate Lando Norris sits second.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

Mark Webber speaks to Sky Sports at the Dutch Grand Prix.\u00a0FOX Sports<\/p>\n

But he conceded he would rather be in Piastri’s shoes than Norris’ right now. <\/p>\n

“Like you’d say in cricket, we would rather have the runs on the ball than not,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There is a long way to go. We have races like Brazil where it rains, Singapore, Azerbaijan, there are street circuits where anything can happen.<\/p>\n

“It is a great day for him. He deserved the win and we will jag the points when we can. He has had a few misses this year that were out of his control. It is good that he doubled down today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is only a matter of time until Oscar Piastri surpasses manager Mark Webber’s number of career F1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-109989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}