{"id":112469,"date":"2025-09-02T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112469\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:39:09","slug":"f1-news-piastri-achieves-rare-f1-feat-in-59-year-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112469\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news: Piastri achieves rare F1 feat in 59-year first"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOscar Piastri achieved a rare ‘grand slam’ in the Dutch Grand Prix. Image: XPB Images<\/p>\n

A grand slam, or \u2018Grand Chelem\u2019, is among the sport\u2019s rarest accomplishments. To claim it, a driver must take pole position, lead every lap, set the fastest lap, and win the race.<\/p>\n

Piastri accomplished all four on Sunday, becoming only the second Australian to do so, joining Brabham, who also pulled it off at the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old is also the first McLaren driver to complete a grand slam this millennium, with the last being Mika Hakkinen at the 1998 Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

The feat makes Piastri only the 27th driver in F1 history to achieve a grand slam, and the first since Max Verstappen at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Among the all-time greats to achieve the feat, Jim Clark holds the record with eight, followed by Lewis Hamilton with six, while Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher, and Verstappen each have five.<\/p>\n

On the current grid, only Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc have achieved a grand slam, with Alonso completing his at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix and Leclerc at the 2022 Australian Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

Piastri dominated Sunday\u2019s race in the Netherlands<\/a>, leading every lap and setting the fastest lap amid three Safety Car periods and the late retirement of championship rival Lando Norris.<\/p>\n

The result marked his seventh victory of the season and extended his lead in the drivers\u2019 championship to 34 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri achieved a rare ‘grand slam’ in the Dutch Grand Prix. Image: XPB Images A grand slam,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,60689,817,813,816,2333,85],"class_list":["post-112469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dutch-gp","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112469","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=112469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}