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Piastri expects chaos at home Australian GP
Cape Argus
|March 05, 2026
MCLAREN driver Oscar Piastri expects chaos in the season opening race in Australia, his home nation.
The 2026 campaign begins at the Australian Grand Prix, and for Piastri it represents more than just the first round of a new era. It is his home race, his biggest spotlight, and perhaps the most pressurised weekend of his Formula 1 career to date.
With sweeping regulation changes reshaping the cars, the engines and the way drivers must manage energy, the Melbourne crowd could be treated to something wildly unpredictable.
Piastri has warned that the new machinery will produce “unnatural differences” compared to previous seasons.
The shift to a far greater reliance on hybrid deployment means drivers will need to manage battery regeneration and energy release more carefull than ever before. “It’s going to look quite different,’ Piastri explained.
“There will be phases of the lap where we're doing things you probably wouldn't have seen before:
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