RACING ROOTS: Oscar Piastri on his unusual route into racing, his move to England at 14 and his journey to F1
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Oscar Piastri’s F1 career is just getting started and, on the evidence so far, it promises to be a long and fruitful one. But that journey to competing at the very top for McLaren has been years in the making...
There is understandably an enormous amount of excitement surrounding the Australian following his debut year in F1 – he enjoyed the best rookie year since Lewis Hamilton in 2007 after all. But to help understand the making of the man today, there’s a lot to discover in his past from his racing roots.

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