{"id":716464,"date":"2026-06-05T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716464\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:37:10","slug":"oscar-piastri-seeking-monaco-success-as-mclaren-marks-1000-f1-grands-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/716464\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri seeking Monaco success as McLaren marks 1,000 F1 grands prix"},"content":{"rendered":"

On an historic occasion for one of Formula 1’s most storied teams, Oscar Piastri is hoping to add silverware to McLaren’s special day in Monaco.<\/p>\n

McLaren will mark its 1,000th F1 grand prix this weekend on the streets of Monte Carlo, the site for its maiden race back in 1966.<\/p>\n

Australian Oscar Piastri enters this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix sixth in the drivers’ championship, following five turbulent race weekends that have produced two brilliant podiums and two failures to start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McLaren ‘looked like idiots’, Brit feels fate is ruining his F1 title dream<\/a><\/p>\n

McLaren has “looked like idiots” after a bold tyre choice at the start of the Canadian Grand Prix backfired immediately for its two drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McLaren has unveiled a special livery for this weekend to mark its 1,000th grand prix, and Piastri has said in the lead-up that he is determined to celebrate the team’s milestone with a terrific result.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“One thousand grands prix is a huge achievement for the team, and it is a privilege to be out there representing McLaren for the occasion,” Piastri said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The car looks mega, and it feels fitting that this celebration has lined up to be where the team first raced in the championship.<\/p>\n

“We’ll do what we can to push hard in the aim of bringing home some silverware this weekend to commemorate the moment.”<\/p>\n

Piastri has been successful at Monaco in his three previous F1 grands prix.<\/p>\n

He has finished on the podium in each of the previous two years and will be hoping for that form to continue after a horrid race in Canada two weekends ago, where he was put on the wrong tyres to start the race<\/a>, then copped a penalty which ended his hopes of scoring points.<\/p>\n

Teammate Lando Norris also suffered his fair share of misfortune in Canada, starting the race on the wrong tyres before retiring just after half-distance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The reigning world champion sits fifth in the drivers’ standings, 10 points ahead of Piastri and 73 adrift of championship leader Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n

McLaren, the winners of the last two constructors’ titles, sit third in that competition on 106 points, 41 behind Ferrari in second and 113 adrift of Mercedes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mercedes has won all five grands prix in 2026, with Antonelli claiming four of those triumphs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Silver Arrows have also won two of the three sprint races held this year, with Norris’s sprint race win in Miami the only time this season that a Mercedes driver has not won a race.<\/p>\n

ABC Sport will have a live blog of the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday, June 7 from 9pm AEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On an historic occasion for one of Formula 1’s most storied teams, Oscar Piastri is hoping to add…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,817,813,913,347647,347646,341288,41683,806,805,803,804,2333,85],"class_list":["post-716464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-mclaren","tag-mclaren-1000","tag-monaco-f1","tag-monaco-gp","tag-monaco-grand-prix","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716464","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=716464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}