{"id":707519,"date":"2026-06-01T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707519\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T03:56:12","slug":"oscar-piastri-stunned-by-isle-of-man-tt-riders-in-first-visit-with-mark-webber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707519\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri stunned by Isle of Man TT riders in first visit with Mark Webber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/team\/mclaren\/10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McLaren<\/a> Formula 1 driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/oscar-piastri\/828689\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> had his first experience of the Isle of Man TT, describing the riders as &#8220;nuts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian driver visited the event during the opening week with his manager and former F1 driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/mark-webber\/65\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Webber<\/a>, following his 11th-place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Attending as a guest of\u00a0Monster Energy, Piastri watched the action unfold from a fan&#8217;s front garden at the bottom of the Bray Hill drop. &#8220;We\u2019re at someone\u2019s house,&#8221; the McLaren driver explained in a social media video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re going through someone\u2019s garden; apparently, this is the spot to watch. I don\u2019t know what I was expecting, but this wasn\u2019t it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As he watched the action, the 25-year-old added: &#8220;These guys are nuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Webber also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DY3xQqzA-G5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-custom-text=\"1\">posted<\/a>, &#8220;Always a privilege taking people for their first time to the @ttracesofficial. Never fails to impress them the display of sheer courage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a tricky start to the 2026 F1 season for Piastri. At the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, he lost control of the car at the exit of Turn 4 on the reconnaissance laps in front of his home crowd, ending his race before it had begun. Adding salt to the wound, both he and his McLaren team-mate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/lando-norris\/289316\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lando Norris<\/a> failed to start the Chinese Grand Prix due to an electrical failure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The third round in Japan marked a turning point for the Woking outfit. Piastri finished the Japanese Grand Prix in second and the Miami Grand Prix, which came after the unexpected five-week break in April, in third.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Piastri now sits sixth in the drivers&#8217; standings with 48 points following an 11th-place finish at the Canadian Grand Prix last week.<\/p>\n<p>Round six will take place around the streets of Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix on 5-7 June.<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri had his first experience of the Isle of Man TT, describing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,318989,817,330394,813,816,913,2333,344164,85,1511],"class_list":["post-707519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-canadian-gp","tag-f1","tag-f1-canadian-grand-prix","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-oscar-piastri-stunned-by-isle-of-man-tt-riders-in-first-visit-with-mark-webber","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707519","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=707519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}