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“Someone we met through RC had a daughter with a go-kart and I had a go on that,” he recalls. Ironically given his previous statement, Piastri then opted for an even more uncertain career path. “Me and my dad were talking about it and we did think about doing it, but trying to travel the world at the age of nine or 10, even with my dad, would have involved a lot of risks and uncertainties.” I think when I won the national championship, the next youngest competitor was 17 – it’s a very broad range of ages. That was the highlight of my RC career, but I definitely raced them competitively – it wasn’t just around the backyard. I won the second class when I was nine, which was pretty cool. “There is basically the top class and then the second class.
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“There is no age limit or age groups,” Piastri explains.
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WATCH: How Oscar Piastri clinched the 2020 Formula 3 title But initially, he began by racing on a much smaller scale, with remote control cars – not just for fun, but competitively. Ultimately, he ended up following a pretty conventional path, which included various karting championships, as well as two single-seater titles – in Formula Renault Eurocup and Formula 3. The PREMA driver’s route to racing started a little differently to most. So who is Oscar Piastri, and how did he get here? An unconventional route to racing Neither Russell nor Leclerc had won a title in the season prior to winning GP3, with Piastri now in with a chance of pulling off a hat-trick.
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Leading 2022 Alfa Romeo driver Guanyu Zhou in the Formula 2 championship battle by 36 points, Piastri is on course to emulate Russell and Leclerc by winning back-to-back F3/GP3 and F2 titles.īut what separates Piastri from the pair on paper is his 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup crown.
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READ MORE: Australian F2 racer Oscar Piastri named as Alpine's reserve driver for 2022 The Australian has recently been announced as the Alpine F1 team’s reserve driver for 2022, but his immediate focus is on achieving a feat that even generational talents George Russell and Charles Leclerc weren’t able to on their way up the junior ladder. “It would be silly if I wasn't coming in and trying to get that third title,” Oscar Piastri says matter-of-factly.