The eight-time F1 race winner has been let go after a disappointing 2024 campaign.
He was the master of the big,bold overtake,but there was one issue that stopped the Australian from being world champion.
Lando Norris roared away from pole position at Marina Bay,leading every lap to the chequered flag,but the Australian who’s stolen fans’ hearts was front and centre for a different reason.
The Australian lives in Monaco and mixes with sporting royalty. But he makes no apologies for being “a nice person” in a cut-throat Formula 1 world.
With a sigh of resignation,Australian F1 ace Oscar Piastri admitted just how gutted he was to miss out on winning one of the races he and his peers want to win most.
The Australian capitalised on a crash involving Max Verstappen and Lando Norris to claim second place for McLaren behind the Mercedes of George Russell.
Max Verstappen restored Red Bull’s supremacy in a dramatic race.
Australian Oscar Piastri avoided a horror crash to claim his third Formula 1 career podium ahead of some of the sport’s biggest names at the Monaco GP.
The shoey has become as much of an Australian cultural export as Bluey,but that’s no source of national pride.
Lando Norris appeared to be cursed in his bid to win a Formula One race,but at his 110th start he finally took the chequered flag.
Daniel Ricciardo enjoyed his first points of the Formula 1 season with a fourth place in the Miami Grand Prix sprint race but came quickly back to earth a few hours later with a disappointing qualifying effort.