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.”

Okay, here's a rewrite of that F1 article:

Most of the recent F1 season saw Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri battling it out for their first world title.

In the end, Lando Norris clinched it in Abu Dhabi. His third-place finish at Yas Marina was enough to secure the championship.

Oscar Piastri ended up in third place overall.

The Aussie was leading the championship for 15 out of 24 race weekends, but a string of unfortunate mistakes later in the season messed up Piastri's title hopes.

Still, Piastri's season had many good points. He snagged seven wins, six poles, and 16 podiums in only his third year in F1 and surprised everyone, even his teammate at McLaren.

Carlos Sainz thinks Lando Norris was surprised by how well Oscar Piastri did in 2025.

During Williams' last Team Torque podcast for 2025, Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz chatted about different stuff from Sainz's first season with the Williams team.

Of course, the drivers' championship came up, and Sainz said he was happy for his old teammate's first title, saying, I'm honestly happy for him. I think he must have had a tough year up here.

His year got off to a rough start. I think it's the first time he seemed surprised by how good Oscar was. He had a potential championship-winning ride and needed to make the most of it.

I remember after Canada when he and Oscar bumped, and it was his fault. I remember seeing him, and he didn’t look too happy.

But it shows it's not about how you start; it's about how you finish. And he got over those problems well.

He had a great second part of the season to get the job done because, in the end, the car was good enough, and he made the most of it.

Sainz and Norris are good friends from when they were teammates. Sainz had said before that Norris told him about his biggest problem at McLaren during the tough title fight.

Alex Albon was also impressed with Lando Norris during the 2025 F1 season.

Albon is close to Norris, too, from their time moving up the racing ladder together.

They both started in F1 in 2019, and Albon said he was impressed with Norris' title-winning season this year.

He said, I think it was a really impressive year for him, just in terms of, I think that people don’t understand—mentally, he’s also strong, kind of in how he came back into the mid part of the season.

And then there were a lot of things that didn’t go their way. Vegas, Zandvoort. But still, he had a really strong second half of the season. I think he proved himself to a lot of people.

Sainz said, More than strong, he just kept doing his best. He’s a great Formula 1 driver. Maybe better than people think.

If you look at his last three years, since McLaren got more competitive, he’s been really quick in both qualifying and the race.

It was just the start of the year that made people doubt whether this year’s car suited him or something. It looked tricky at first, but then they got over those problems.