Oscar Piastri parts ways with manager Mark Webber after seven years

An amicable split, long in the making

Nobody should be surprised. According to Motorsport.com, Webber had already stepped back at the start of the 2026 season and no longer travelled to races with Piastri. In the paddock, the Australian has since relied on two new faces: Pedro Matos, his former race engineer at Prema in F2, and Emma Murray, his mental performance coach.

In his statement, Webber explains that after scaling back their presence at the track this year, he and his wife Ann decided together that the time had come to bring things to a close. Piastri will carry on with a new management structure, which has not been named, while the couple turns to other projects.

From Eurocup to McLaren in record time

The partnership started in 2019, with Ann Webber, who had already managed her husband's career, working alongside Mark. That year Piastri narrowly won the Formula Renault Eurocup ahead of Victor Martins and joined Renault's F1 junior programme.

Things moved fast from there: the F3 title in 2020, snatched by a whisker from Théo Pourchaire and Logan Sargeant, then the F2 crown in his rookie season in 2021. Guided by Webber, he then left Alpine to become a McLaren race driver from 2023. Motorsport.com calls it a decisive move, one that put him in the fight for the 2025 world title. His tally now stands at 88 Grands Prix, 6 pole positions and 9 wins.

A driver who has learned to stand on his own

Piastri had hinted at this shift before. In February, he insisted the new arrangement was not down to any particular event: Webber was still very involved, just less present at races. In May, on the High Performance podcast, he described a meticulous manager who, early on, raised questions he had never considered.

With experience, he explained, he had found the answers to many of those questions himself. In his fourth season, it felt natural that Webber had less to do on the sporting side. He also acknowledged that Webber's advice had probably spared him plenty of tricky situations.

In his own message, Piastri thanks Mark and Ann for their support and guidance, which he describes as invaluable in navigating his first steps in F1, and wishes them all the best.

The question now is who takes over. The new structure handling his affairs has yet to be named, and it is the one that will have a say in the big decisions of Piastri's career from here on.