{"id":701277,"date":"2026-05-29T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:36:12","slug":"im-part-of-biological-history-ancient-wasp-named-after-oscar-piastri-yes-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701277\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m part of biological history\u2019: Ancient wasp named after Oscar Piastri (yes, really)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may not have won a World Drivers Championship just yet, but Australia\u2019s Oscar Piastri can already boast something no other Formula One driver has ever achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Melbournian has been immortalised with news that a recently discovered prehistoric wasp has been officially named after him.<\/p>\n<p>The Gwesped piastrii\u00a0was discovered in Burmese amber, with its colour resembling McLaren\u2019s iconic orange.<\/p>\n<p>A research article published today in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1871174X26000028?via%3Dihub#s0030\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Science Direct<\/a> explained the Gwesped piastrii species of wasp was discovered in northern Myanmar frozen in amber resembling the iconic orange papaya colour of McLaren\u2019s F1 race livery.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a data-testid=\"card--article-thumbnail\" role=\"article\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/formula-1\/news\/these-inters-are-mistake-canadian-calamity-piastri-mclaren-blunder-gifts-f1-rivals-huge-advantage\/349c4be3b1906571d8e166b2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canadian calamity for Piastri as McLaren blunder gifts F1 rivals huge advantage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, the article\u2019s authors did not explain why they choose to name their find after Oscar Piastri and not his World Champion teammate Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" image_resolution=\"16:9\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Piastri wasp Science Direct 052926.jpg.webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-credit\">          Science Direct    <\/p>\n<p>Learning of his latest somewhat unusual \u2018win\u2019 Piastri was said to be, ahem, buzzing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m famous, I\u2019m part of biological history,\u201d Piastri said at McLaren HQ ahead of the Monaco F1 Grand Prix next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited I might sting someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">He&#8217;s truly buzzing \ud83d\udc1d<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/McLarenF1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#McLarenF1<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JOEIUPXHw4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/JOEIUPXHw4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 McLaren Mastercard Formula 1 Team (@McLarenF1) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McLarenF1\/status\/2060089608499548423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">May 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He may not have won a World Drivers Championship just yet, but Australia\u2019s Oscar Piastri can already boast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-701277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701277","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=701277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}