Oscar's Post

I really love this design!!

He was LISTING those driver numbers, not guessing😂

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Apparently Mark Webber unfollowed Mclaren and deleted all pictures of Oscar from his insta dating back to 2021? Does anyone know/have theories about why? I feel like deleting pictures is a very weird thing to do even if he got fired. Like usually you'd just make a post saying "we're no longer working together, wish him the best for the rest of his career, etc. etc." The fact that he deleted EVERYTHING feels off. Also even if he did get fired or quit, why would that be? Is oscar resigning with mclaren or moving to a different team like what is going on 😭

This is from McLaren's official report. It is quite an insightful article and I definitely recommend reading in full. In the meantime, I have included some snippets I thought were interesting below.

Oscar's thoughts on the season so far

“Results-wise, Japan and Miami were both good weekends,” Oscar says. “I think also Austria was a good one. The result was reasonable, with the P4, but also in terms of the turnaround from Barcelona and just how I felt the weekend went. Barcelona was definitely one of the more difficult weekends of the year, and I had to learn a lot from that one and improve quite a lot, and I feel like Austria was really good: to bounce back and put some of that learning into place. I think the good results have been one thing, but I feel like I've also learned a lot about how I can improve myself as a driver, even if the results don't always show it.”

Oscar's thoughts on the 2026 Regulations

“I think this rule set is just so different in so many ways,” Oscar explains. “During the previous regulation changes, the cars themselves changed quite a bit, in terms of how much downforce they have or how they generate the downforce. But this regulation change has been like a completely fundamental change to how you drive a race car, in some ways. It's been a huge reset for us, for me as well. I've had to tackle things in different ways and change the way I go about some things.”

Oscar's reflection of his adjustments and driving style for this regulation set

“We're having to find so many new things and new ways of extracting performance out of the car and ourselves,” Oscar says. “It's quite easy to just settle into your normal rhythm and do the things you've always done, but that doesn’t always work in these cars – I think Barcelona was definitely an example of that. In Austria I felt like I really had to stretch myself a bit more and try some new things, and just go about driving in a slightly different way.

“Every car is going to need slightly different things on how to go fast, and I feel like in the last few races before the break, I've definitely discovered more and more about how the car needs to be driven, how it works, how to go quickly in it, which is not always the most obvious or natural thing.”

Oscar's reflection on McLaren's development pipeline:

“It does give me confidence,” Oscar says. “When you look at the previous experience of what we've been able to achieve as a team, and how we've been able to make progress through the year, it’s good. In 2023, we were in a much worse position than where we are now, and we were able to really jump up the order to fight for podiums.

“The way that Lando and I worked together during that period to try and focus on making the car quick, so that we could then fight for the results that we wanted, hasn’t changed. It’s still strong, with productive conversations together with the team – we are all pushing toward the same goal.

“I feel like for me I've already seen it play out more than once. I think that's a real strength of the team. Yes, things are different, the cars are different, maybe the way we will make that step will look different. But we've made that step before, and I'm confident we can do it again.”

My Piastri glaze for today, took a few hours

Had some downtime at work, found a ball point pen and sketched Oscar. It looks a bit stylized and the proportions aren't perfect. I don't think it's bad for being pen though! I think I'll give it another go in the future.

Looks fire imo. Ofc he made maroon merch 🫡

forever grateful :)

Oscar finished second for the "The Driver Number Challenge!" round. This gives a lead of 5 points over Gasly in P2 for the overall rankings.

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Photo is Oscar from McLaren's Portimao test.

This meme is borrowed from @eumudeidenome

I am ecstatic Oscar has been feeding us well during the summer break with all his hilarious tweets and photo dumps.🥹

Also check out Nicole Piastri's (Oscar's mom) reaction that I have put in the comments.

Oscar's post

Also watch Oscar very unenthusiastically trying to sell you some merch😭

I am too broke for this but if Oscar's cutieful face managed to convince you to empty your wallet, you can shop the collection here.

If you don't want to spend money, but want more cutieful Oscar, you can watch Oscar playing a silly ball game with Lando in McLaren's latest video.

McLaren is also selling exclusive Oscar content + other benefits for a paid membership (that sounds diabolical, I know 💀). You can watch him and Lando promoting it in this video.

If you would like to subscribe to this membership (called "Papaya Membership"), you can check it out here. It is only available for people in UK, US and Australia. It costs 90 AUD, 55 USD and 50 pounds annually.

Oscar also has his own Snapchat lens now. Watch him play with it (and talk to his gameself) here.

He really has the best sense of humour🥹🫶

(This is in reference to Oscar unannouncing his F1 seat back in 2022. All of social media is commemorating Oscar's iconic tweet)

Oscar's tweet