{"id":792085,"date":"2026-07-10T20:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792085\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:37:11","slug":"oscar-piastri-manager-brands-mclaren-f1-exit-talk-as-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792085\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri manager brands McLaren F1 exit talk as &#8216;nonsense&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri&#8217;s manager, Mark Webber, has branded talk that the Australian is looking to leave McLaren as &#8220;nonsense.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>With Max Verstappen being heavily linked to McLaren in recent weeks, Piastri&#8217;s name has been suggested as the driver who would make way should the bombshell move ever materialise.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, as <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/oscar-piastri-set-to-stay-at-mclaren-for-the-foreseeable-future#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RacingNews365 wrote earlier in the week, it is understood from sources that &#8220;nothing has changed&#8221;<\/a> in relation to Piastri&#8217;s relationship with McLaren, who is into his fourth season with the team in 2026.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the rumours of a potential exit, Piastri&#8217;s manager, former Red Bull driver and nine-time grand prix winner Webber branded such talk as &#8220;fiction&#8221; and &#8220;nonsense.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oscar is contracted to McLaren for the foreseeable future,&#8221; Webber told RACER\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Talk of him agitating to leave is nonsense.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been a lot of fiction written about him and other teams.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;McLaren have repeatedly said they want him for the long term and Oscar is focused on that.&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri&#8217;s manager, Mark Webber, has branded talk that the Australian is looking to leave McLaren as &#8220;nonsense.&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-792085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792085","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=792085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}