{"id":792729,"date":"2026-07-11T03:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792729\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T03:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T03:43:10","slug":"f1-news-2026-oscar-piastris-agent-shuts-down-red-bull-nonsense-mark-weber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/792729\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 news 2026: Oscar Piastri\u2019s agent shuts down Red Bull \u2018nonsense\u2019; Mark Weber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri\u2019s manager Mark Webber has dismissed as fiction lingering reports suggesting McLaren\u2019s Australian driver might swap places with Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n<p>Four-times world champion Verstappen\u2019s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase has already signed a deal to join McLaren when his contract allows, by 2028 at the latest, and the Dutch driver has been unhappy with Red Bull\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7ecab0d76580902206c6cfb5b6b1363f2df75224a2d7e37cc08e2a9389aea2a4.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Oscar Piastri.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen is known to have a break clause in his contract and continues to be linked in media speculation to McLaren, despite them saying they are happy with the current pairing of Piastri and world champion Lando Norris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a contract in place, multiple reassurances that the team are very happy with me and I\u2019m very happy with the team,\u201d Piastri said at last weekend\u2019s British Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>Verstappen crashed out of that race and said his car\u2019s rear wing was \u201csuper-dangerous\u201d, with the incident further fuelling speculation about a rift within the team.<\/p>\n<p>Webber told Racer.com that Piastri was contracted to McLaren \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalk of him agitating to leave is nonsense,\u201d said the former F1 driver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot of fiction written about him and other teams&#8230; McLaren have repeatedly said they want him for the long term and Oscar is focused on that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri\u2019s manager Mark Webber has dismissed as fiction lingering reports suggesting McLaren\u2019s Australian driver might swap places&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-792729","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\/792729","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=792729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}