Matching his manager Mark Webber\u2019s win tally during F1 2025, Oscar Piastri has admitted it\u2019s \u201csurreal\u201d having the Australian as part of his camp.<\/p>\n
Piastri eclipsed the win tally of Daniel Ricciardo during last season, but is yet to surpass the successes achieved by his manager, Mark Webber.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri: It took a while to sink in that Mark Webber is my manager<\/p>\n
Want more PlanetF1.com coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for news you can trust.<\/p>\n Piastri became a properly-established F1 frontrunner during the 2025 season, winning seven races to emerge as a championship contender against McLaren teammate Lando Norris and Red Bull driver Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n These wins took him to a career tally of nine races won, matching that of fellow Australian and former F1 driver Mark Webber, who is now a key part of Piastri\u2019s entourage.<\/p>\n Through his company, Jam Sports Management, Webber and his partner Ann have looked after Piastri\u2019s motorsport career ever since coming on board with the young talent during his Formula Renault Eurocup championship-winning year in 2019.<\/p>\n Webber was a successful F1 driver in his own right, racing between 2002 and \u201913, racking up nine wins during the final five years of his career while partnered with Sebastian Vettel at Red Bull.<\/p>\n The fact that his own driver has so quickly matched his win tally in just his first three seasons has become something of an inside joke, Piastri has revealed, with the victory to take him clear of his manager not coming in 2025 as his last race win of the year came at the Dutch Grand Prix at the end of August.<\/p>\n Piastri\u2019s next win will make him the third-most successful Australian driver in F1 history, only behind Sir Jack Brabham and Alan Jones. With 14 race wins, Brabham won three world titles: 1959, \u201960, and \u201966, while Jones won 12 races and secured the 1980 championship.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be celebrating it more than I will,\u201d Piastri told the\u00a0Beyond the Grid podcast, when asked about the fact he and his manager are tied on successes, for now.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019ll be good, hopefully. I mean, obviously, I\u2019ve got to try and make it happen, but it\u2019s been a good little inside joke through the year.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s safe on the poles for now and podiums! But, yeah, wins are obviously neck and neck at the moment. So it\u2019s been a good little bit of fun between us this year.\u201d<\/p>\n Piastri wasn\u2019t even a year old when Webber made his debut at the 2002 Australian Grand Prix, securing a famous fifth-place for the little-fancied backmarker team Minardi that sent his home country, and team boss Paul Stoddart, into paroxysms of delight.<\/p>\n Having grown up watching his compatriot sparring for wins and titles while with Red Bull, Piastri said it took him some time to adjust to the fact that he had someone of Webber\u2019s proven success working to further his career.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it is [surreal], yeah,\u201d he said on the Off the Grid podcast.<\/p>\n \u201cObviously, I grew up watching Mark racing on TV, so to now have him as part of my management is kind of strange in some ways.<\/p>\n \u201cThis feels very normal now, but when we first kind of explored that route, it was kind of surreal, like \u2018I\u2019m meeting someone I\u2019ve watched pretty much my whole childhood in F1, and he\u2019s now taking care of my career\u2019, and basically telling me what to do.<\/p>\n \u201cSo it took a little bit for that to sink in.\u201d<\/p>\n More on Oscar Piastri in F1<\/p>\n Oscar Piastri can now look back on Alpine saga with \u2018some laughs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n