Oscar Piastri explains unusual F1 'problem' expected to worsen

Oscar Piastri has explained how he is facing the unusual situation of not having enough room in his house for all his F1 trophies. 

In his first two seasons of F1, Piastri collected a total of 10 podiums, but across the first half of the 2025 season, he has almost matched that with nine podiums, including five wins. 

The Australian currently leads the drivers' standings by 15 points from team-mate Lando Norris as the pair chase their first world drivers' championship titles, but Piastri has explained that as he receives his replica trophies, he is facing an unusual problem.

"I give them all to McLaren, that is what it says in my contract," Piastri explained at McLaren's Trafalgar Square event in London of the trophies he has won. 

"I'm slowly getting all the replicas that come as quickly as I am getting them, and I quickly discover that I am going to need more rooms in my apartment to fit all my stuff.

"It is a good problem to have, but that is the one problem of winning."

As a byproduct of Piastri's decision to join McLaren, it meant he left Alpine, for whom he had some choice words over the radio in Austria after backmarker Franco Colapinto pushed him onto the grass whilst being lapped. 

It was sister Alpine of Pierre Gasly who wrecked Piastri's second qualifying lap the day before, leaving him third on the grid, as he explained the message when pushed by media, including RacingNews365, at Silverstone ahead of the British Grand Prix. 

"Obviously, it is a long time ago now, and the comments on the radio... I think it was just a coincidence that qualifying was an Alpine and then got impeded by both in the race," he said.

"So it was just more of a coincidence, but no, I have not really thought much about it with the comparisons and the directions each team have taken since I joined Formula 1, but I honestly haven't thought about it for over 12 months."