{"id":295711,"date":"2025-11-19T22:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295711\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T22:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T22:21:09","slug":"mclaren-definitively-sidelines-piastri-in-abu-dhabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/295711\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren definitively sidelines Piastri in Abu Dhabi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> will definitely miss part of the final race weekend of the season. The Australian will have to skip the first free practice session in Abu Dhabi, of all places, where the world championship could potentially be decided.Every Formula 1<\/a> driver (who did not start the season with fewer than two Grands Prix to his name) must give up his seat twice per season to a rookie, giving them the chance to gain experience in Formula 1. Oscar Piastri has done this only once so far in 2024.<\/p>\n

It has now been confirmed that Piastri will take part in first practice on Thursday (local time) in Las Vegas, which means he will automatically miss Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

In Qatar, in just over a week, there is a sprint race and therefore only one free practice session. So Piastri won\u2019t be able to sit that one out.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri in action – Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n

Unfortunate timing for Piastri<\/p>\n

For Piastri, having to sit out a practice session could come at a particularly unfortunate moment. There\u2019s a chance he\u2019ll still be fully in the title fight. While his rival Lando Norris and possibly Max Verstappen can work on the setup of theircars in FP1, Piastri will be on the pit wall.<\/p>\n

It is not yet known who will replace Piastri in Abu Dhabi. The most likely candidate is Pato O\u2019Ward, McLaren<\/a>\u2019s Mexican test and reserve driver.Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1<\/a> paddock? Then GPblog’s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog’s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri will definitely miss part of the final race weekend of the season. The Australian will have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[94915,64,63,817,35119,813,816,41955,163617,913,2333,85,169580],"class_list":["post-295711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-abu-dhabi-grand-prix","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-f1-news","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-las-vegas-grand-prix","tag-las-vegas-street-circuit","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports","tag-yas-marina-circuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295711","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=295711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}