And he is experiencing this rollercoaster campaign without the hands-on presence of advisor Webber, 49.<\/p>\n
Piastri was regularly seen alongside Webber at races during the 2025 season, but is no longer a staple at the Grands Prix as he takes more of a backseat position in his man\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
Webber was embroiled in a close title battle with Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso in 2010.<\/p>\n
He ultimately finished third, 14 points behind champion Vettel \u2014 a result which mirrored Piastri last year as he came up 13 points short of teammate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n
Yet despite Webber having plenty of advice for Piastri, the McLaren star feels he now has enough experience to decipher situations without him by his side.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201c[Webber] is still very much involved, and I\u2019ve still spoken to him a lot through the start of the year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m getting more experience in my own career, and there\u2019s also an element of I\u2019ve just got more experience, so I can make some of these decisions, ask some of these questions myself.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEspecially the first couple of years or especially year one of F1, there were a lot of questions that hadn\u2019t even crossed my mind that Mark was asking as if they were obvious to me and the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think now some of those questions come a lot more naturally for me. It\u2019s just a natural evolution, really.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the absence of Webber at races, Piastri\u2019s race engineer for his F2 triumph, Pedro Matos, is accompanying him to Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
Due to the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races, next up on the calendar is Miami in May.<\/p>\n
Piastri took victory at the US race last year, but will face a tougher assignment this time around given the speed of Mercedes duo Antonelli and George Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has revealed the reason why his relationship with manager Mark Webber has changed for the 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-593016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593016","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=593016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}