Is this the next Daniel Ricciardo? Meet the teenager tipped to be Australia's next F1 star - as a motorsport legend backs him to go all the way
Australian F1 legend Mark Webber has tipped a young-gun Aussie driver to become the nation's next Formula One star. Oscar Piastri, 19, from Melbourne, is steadily climbing up the international racing ranks and has made a stunning debut in Formula 3 - a feeder series to F1. His manager, nine-time F1 race winner Webber, said Piastri's 'sensational trajectory' could see him racing on the Grand Prix grid 'in a couple of years'. 'F3 is the most intense learning he can have at his age and he's going extraordinarily well. The goal is absolutely that he'll race Formula One,' Webber, who retired from F1 in 2013, told Nine. Oscar Piastri (pictured left), 19, from Melbourne has been tipped as Australia's next Formula One champion who could replace Australian motorsport legend Daniel Ricciardo Piastri (pictured right) has made waves in the formula racing world after ranking first in the F3 championships this year with the help of manager and forme