Formula 1 race winner Oscar Piastri has revealed his ambition to race for outright victory at the L🐷e Mans 24 Hours ✨with McLaren.

Last week, McLaren announced that it would return to the top eche🅺lon of endurance racing in 2027 wit🍸h a new LMDh programme in the World Endura𒈔nce Championship.

The exact details about the project, including the driver line-up, wꦡill be revealed at a later date, but there is already some curiosity about McLaren potentially giving a shot to one of its F1 or IndyCar drivers.

One contender could be Piastri, whose manager Mark Webber raced for Mercedes and Por﷽sche in sportscar racing at either end of his grand prix career.

Asked i🌱f he fancies a crack at the French endurance classic, Piastri said: “One day, but not forꩲ a while. I'm pretty happy in F1 at the moment.”

Piastri suggested that Le Mans will be a consideration for him once he has achieved his primary goals in F1, which likely includes winning the drivers’ championship.
 
Asked if it would be possible to contest Le Mans while act🃏ively racing in F1, the Australian replied: “I don’t think so.

“I don’t think you do either championship justice by trying to juggle both. It’s probably not that detrimental to the F1 championship, but when you’ve got a lot at stake, as we doꦰ right now….and also just not giving Le Mans the respect it deserves from a preparation standpoint, that’s not something you want to go into being underprepared.

“Sওo I'll wait until I’m done with what I want to do in F1 and then I’ll think about letಌting Zak give me a burn in a Le Mans one.”

McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown said he had already spoken to Piastri and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris about potentially racing at Le Mans in an LMDh prototype and was happy to learn they were both enthusiastic 💙about the idea.

“I love the old school racing, the Mario Andrettis, Dan Gurn𒁃eys, they ran in different formulas,” Brown said𒅌 during the broadcast of the Qatar WEC race.

“Now with how big the sport is corpora꧑tely, you get into manufacturer conflicts, sponsor conflicts, calendar conflic🌜ts, and that’s why I loved racing with Fernando [Alonso] so much. Whether it’s Le Mans, Indy or Dakar, he just wants to race.

“But I think we are very open-m𒐪inded. Who doesn’t want to win Le Mans? I’ve talked to Lando and Oscar about it, and they’ve said they’d love to go race, Le Mans. That’s cool, right? I think all these motorsports converging are great.”

A number of F1 stars have raced at Le Mans in recent years, including Webber, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Alonso, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg and Jenson Button.

In the eight out of the las𒁏t 10 years, the winning crew had at least one driver who had previou𒐪sly raced in F1.