Oscar Piastri has committed to a multi-year extension on his current McLaren contract that should keep him at the Formula 1 team until at least 2028.
Partway through his rookie F1 season in 2023 Piastri signed a long-term deal with McLaren stretching until the end of 2026.
Now on the eve of the 2025 F1 season starting at the Australian Grand Prix in Piastri's home city of Melbourne, he has agreed a new "multi-year extension" to the contract.
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McLaren has not given a specific end date - long-term F1 contracts often have built-in options anyway which make determining a tangible end difficult - but you would suspect it will be at least until the end of 2028.
It takes Piastri off the driver market and eliminates Piastri as an option for one of McLaren's rivals post-2026.
The news follows similar long-term commitments made by team-mate Lando Norris, McLaren CEO Zak Brown and team boss Andrea Stella throughout the team's constructors' title-winning 2024 campaign.
"It's a great feeling knowing that I'm part of McLaren’s long-term vision," Piastri said.
"The team had the belief in me when we signed in 2022, and the journey we've gone on over the past two seasons to help return McLaren to the very top of the sport has been incredible.
"There are so many talented and special people working at MTC [the McLaren Technology Centre] who have helped me to become a Formula 1 race winner very early in my career.
"Therefore, I'm very proud to be continuing to represent this legendary team for many years to come.
"I'm excited to fight for the big prizes as a McLaren driver and after last year's fantastic achievements, it has made me even hungrier to stay at the sharp end."
Brown praised Piastri's "work ethic and cultural fit" and called it a "no-brainer" to extend his contract. He said McLaren has "the best driver line-up on the grid".
Stella added: "Alongside Lando, we have what we need locked in for the long term to keep pushing forward."
While it was Norris who spearheaded McLaren's ultimately unsuccessful drivers' championship charge last year, Piastri hopes to be the driver leading McLaren's efforts in 2025, having made significant gains through his second season in F1 including his first two race wins, at the Hungaroring and in Baku respectively.
