Oscar Piastri is the next Australian talent seemingly on the path to Formula 1, and his compatriot Daniel Ricciardo is impressed. A member of the Alpine junior team, Piastri is currently chasing an achievement which would put him in the history books alongside George Russell and Charles Leclerc, that being winning the GP3/Formula 3 and Formula 2 titles back-to-back. Six races remain in the 2021 Formula 2 campaign and Piastri leads the standings on 178 points, giving him a 36-point buffer over his fellow Alpine junior Guanyu Zhou in P2. Ricciardo himself has experience of aspiring to join a fellow Australian in Formula 1, having joined the grid in 2011 when Mark Webber was racing for Red...
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