{"id":344339,"date":"2025-12-13T01:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344339\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:20:08","slug":"wheres-oscar-mclaren-team-photo-says-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344339\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s Oscar? McLaren \u2018team\u2019 photo says a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still basking in the glory of its dual Formula One World Championship 2025 season, McLaren continues to find new ways to raise eyebrows and upset fans\u2014especially those in the southern hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>Before the all-conquering \u2018papaya\u2019 team wound down for the Christmas-New Year break, it found time for a final photo that will surely do little to quell claims of favouritism against Australian driver Oscar Piastri.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur last team pic of the year,\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McLarenF1\/status\/1999522658044559483?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">McLaren posted<\/a> triumphantly from its headquarters in Woking, Surrey, with hundreds of staffers crowded excitedly around their new F1 World Champion Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Let me guess, Oscar took the picture\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Only trouble was, as many observers quickly noticed, someone was missing from the photo who had a rather significant role in the constructors\u2019 and drivers\u2019 world championship battles for McLaren in 2025: Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink you\u2019re missing a pretty important part of the team in this pic,\u201d commented one follower.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam pic? I didn\u2019t know you only had one driver\u2026\u201d replied another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me guess Oscar took the picture,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>With Piastri contracted to McLaren until the end of 2028, the next few seasons promise to be interesting to say the least\u2014\u2018papaya rules\u2019 or not.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Formula One season begins with the Australian Grand Prix on March 8 in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/formula-1\/news\/piastri-fairness-equality-norris-2026-f1-season-not-superman\/87cdaee4404c5ea2f82ecfca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Piastri expects full equality with Norris for 2026 F1 season: \u2019It\u2019s not like he\u2019s become Superman\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Still basking in the glory of its dual Formula One World Championship 2025 season, McLaren continues to find&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-344339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344339","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=344339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}