Zak Brown is “convinced” Oscar Piastri will become Formula 1 world champion with McLaren despite losing the 2025 title to team-mate Lando Norris at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Oscar Piastri looked forward to watching Australia beat England at cricket and enjoying some home summer sun after a Formula One season of highs and lows ended in disappointment on Sunday.

Norris entered 2025 as the title favorite, and won the opening race. But Piastri soon began to outshine him and took the championship lead, holding it for most of the season. But in the final stretch, Piastri slumped while Norris went on a hot streak, and the British driver regained the championship lead in late October.

Oscar Piastri's chief rival, new formula 1 world champion Lando Norris, says the Australian will "get the better of me" after their tension-filled title race decider in Abu Dhabi.

McLaren have gone overboard to praise “team player” Oscar Piastri following his agonising Formula One championship defeat, but the Australian expects the team to repay him by ensuring equal treatment alongside their new champion Lando Norris next season.

Though it started with misery — he went too deep into one corner in the wet conditions during the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and slid onto the grass at the next turn, blowing his shot at a home podium — Piastri rebounded, entering a dominant era of his own.

Oscar Piastri missed out on winning the Fornula 1 drivers world championship by just 13 points to his teammate Lando Norris, the culmination of multiple small moments throughout the season that cost him dear.

Rejecting the growing speculation that his own team had conspired against him to help Lando Norris win this season’s Formula One drivers’ title, Oscar Piastri expects McLaren to give him a fair chance to beat his teammate next year and win his own world title.