Nicole Piastri isn’t expecting to see much of her son during the Australian Grand Prix this weekend.
“He came to lunch on Monday and that’s about it,” she says of Formula 1 driver Oscar Piastri, who placed third in the driver’s championship last year.
Oscar Piastri embraces his mother, Nicole, after his win in Baku. Getty Images It’s not that Nicole and the McLaren driver aren’t close. It’s just that despite the race being held in his home town, Oscar will stay with his team.
“He’s very closely guarded this weekend. Not even his mum can get near him,” Nicole says of the 24-year-old who is now aiming to become the first Australian since Alan Jones in 1980 to claim the world championship.
Speaking at the Victorian Chamber of Commerce breakfast on Thursday morning, Nicole told the crowd that growing up in the bayside suburb of Brighton, her son was into cars from a very young age, starting with radio-controlled racing, then go-karting, and moving on to race cars.
“There was no stopping it, I tried really hard,” Nicole says. “Both grandparents are mechanics and his dad is into cars and has a car tuning business, so it was happening.”
She still remembers the day when her then-hus
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