Oscar Piastri might've missed out on the F1 2025 title since Lando Norris won, but Zak Brown thinks Piastri's got a bright future.

Brown, the McLaren Racing CEO, believes Piastri will be a world champion someday. He said F1 can be tough since both Norris and Piastri raced great, but Norris got the title.

Zak Brown on Oscar Piastri: ‘Future World Champion’

Piastri looked like he might win his first World Championship halfway through the season. He was ahead of Norris by 34 points after the Dutch Grand Prix, but Norris caught up, and Piastri's performance dipped a bit.

Even though Piastri did better near the end, it wasn't enough. Norris beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen by two points to take the crown. Piastri ended up in third after the Abu Dhabi race, which was a close fight between the three of them.

Brown is sure Piastri will get his chance.

"He's going to be a world champion," Brown said about Piastri on Sky F1.

Both our drivers won seven races and raced amazingly, and they supported each other.

It's a tough sport. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.

But I can't wait to race with these two guys next year.

Even though Piastri didn't win, F1 2025 was still a season where he improved a lot during his third year.

Piastri talked about learning stuff that would help him later, as he plans to come back in 2026 and try again.

The 2026 season should be interesting because there are new rules for the cars and engines, which could shake things up.

“I would have liked a different ending, but I think this year I’ve learned so much about myself as a driver and as a person,” Piastri told Media.

“If you told me at the start of the year that I would get pole positions, wins, and podiums, I would have been happy.

“And even when things were tough, I learned a lot about myself and how to be stronger later on.

“So, there’s a bit of sadness, of course, but I’m proud of the season I had, and I’ve learned a lot for the future.”

Red Bull CEO Oliver Mintzlaff talked about why they let Christian Horner go earlier this year.

Horner had been in charge of the team since it started in 2005. He saw Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel win a bunch of world championships.

Former Aston Martin strategy engineer Bernie Collins thinks the F1 rankings in 2026 will mostly depend on how good the new engine is.

Next year, there will be big changes to both the engine and the aero rules.

Red Bull CEO Oliver Mintzlaff seems sure that Max Verstappen won't decide to race for another F1 team before he retires.

There was a lot of talk about Verstappen's F1 future in the first half of 2025 because the team wasn't doing so well compared to McLaren, which was way ahead.

David Coulthard doesn't think Max Verstappen will be sorry about bumping into George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix, even though it cost him some key points. He thinks only weaker minds would feel that way.

Everyone knows about what happened at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Even if the Red Bull driver had given up his spot to the Brit without any trouble, he still would have finished fifth and gotten 10 points.

Fred Vasseur said that Ferrari will show up at the private test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in January with a spec A car.

The Ferrari boss thinks other F1 teams will do the same. He said that the main thing during the five-day test won't be how fast the car is, but how well it holds up.

Toto Wolff said Mercedes is lucky to have George Russell racing for them after the British driver's great 2025 F1 season.

Russell, who has won five Grand Prix races, did really well that season. He came in fourth overall, behind the top three drivers, and made it to the podium nine times, winning twice.