30/07/2025 06:30
Oscar Piastri has broken the record of Sir Jack Brabham and Alan
Jones for the most wins in an F1 season by an Australian driver
following the Belgian GP. Powering past team-mate Lando Norris on
the first lap of the rolling start at Spa, Piastri earned the
preferential strategy and went on to take a comfortable win to
extend his points lead over Norris to 16 heading into the Hungarian
GP. In doing so, Piastri claimed his sixth win of the season -
after China, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Miami, and Spain. That breaks
the record first set by Brabham in 1960 of five wins in a season by
an Australian. Brabham won five races on the trot to land his
second world title that year, with the only other Australian world
champion Jones racking up five wins as he took the 1980 crown, as
the table below shows. Piastri's Spa win was also the eighth of his
career, drawing level with Daniel Ricciardo, and putting him one
behind manager Mark Webber on nine. Jones took 12 wins in his
career, with Brabham leading the way on 14. The last driver to
score six or more wins in a season and not win the title was Lewis
Hamilton with eight in 2021, whilst the last driver to score
exactly six and not be champion was Felipe Massa in 2008. Most wins
in a season by an Australian driver
