MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Formula 1 championship leader Oscar\u00a0Piastri\u00a0will be able to zoom past his own grandstand in next year’s Australian Grand Prix at Melbourne’s Albert Park.<\/p>\n
The Australian GP announced late Monday that the Piastri Grandstand would be located on the main straight, opposite the pit lane.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Piastri, born and raised in Melbourne, leads the F1 championship this year with 14 of the 24 races completed. He placed\u00a0second\u00a0to his McLaren teammate Lando Norris at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Aug. 3.<\/p>\n
Piastri will join a number of other Australian drivers who have a grandstand named for them, including\u00a0Jack Brabham, Alan Jones,\u00a0Daniel Ricciardo\u00a0and Mark Webber.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels very surreal, and I never thought this would happen but the support is incredible and I can\u2019t wait to see it all come together next March,” Piastri said. \u201cSeeing all the fans in my own grandstand directly opposite the McLaren garage is going to be an amazing experience and I\u2019m really looking forward to feeling the energy and the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri leads the F1 standings with 284 points with 12 podium finishes so far this season. He is followed by Norris with 275 points, also from 12 podiums. Defending champion\u00a0Max Verstappen\u00a0is third on 187 points for Red Bull, George Russell in his Mercedes is fourth on 172 and Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc rounds out the top five with 151 points.<\/p>\n
The Australian GP will be held March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia \u2014 Formula 1 championship leader Oscar\u00a0Piastri\u00a0will be able to zoom past his own grandstand in next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-79944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}