03/07/2025 21:00
Oscar Piastri has explained how he is facing the unusual situation
of not having enough room in his house for all his F1 trophies. In
his first two seasons of F1, Piastri collected a total of 10
podiums, but across the first half of the 2025 season, he has
almost matched that with nine podiums, including five wins. The
Australian currently leads the drivers' standings by 15 points from
team-mate Lando Norris as the pair chase their first world drivers'
championship titles, but Piastri has explained that as he receives
his replica trophies, he is facing an unusual problem. "I give them
all to McLaren, that is what it says in my contract," Piastri
explained at McLaren's Trafalgar Square event in London of the
trophies he has won. "I'm slowly getting all the replicas that
come as quickly as I am getting them, and I quickly discover that I
am going to need more rooms in my apartment to fit all my stuff.
"It is a good problem to have, but that is the one problem of
winning." As a byproduct of Piastri's decision to join McLaren, it
meant he left Alpine, for whom he had some choice words over the
radio in Austria after backmarker Franco Colapinto pushed him onto
the grass whilst being lapped. It was sister Alpine of Pierre
Gasly who wrecked Piastri's second qualifying lap the day before,
leaving him third on the grid, as he explained the message when
pushed by media, including RacingNews365 , at Silverstone ahead of
the British Grand Prix. "Obviously, it is a long time ago now, and
the comments on the radio... I think it was just a coincidence that
qualifying was an Alpine and then got impeded by both in the race,"
he said. "So it was just more of a coincidence, but no, I have not
really thought much about it with the comparisons and the
directions each team have taken since I joined Formula 1, but I
honestly haven't thought about it for over 12 months."
