Formula 1 race winner Oscar Piastri has revealed his a♓mbition to race for outright victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours with McLaren.

Last week, McLaren announced that it would return to the top e🍌chelon of end🅷urance racing in 2027 with⭕ a new LMDh programme in the World Endurance 𒁃Championship.

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

One contender could be Piastri, whose manager Mark Webber raced for Mercede༺s and Porsche in sportscar racing at either end of his grand prix career.

Asked if he fancies a crack at the French endurance classic, Piastri said: “One day, but not for a while. I🍬'm pretty hapꦅpy 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 actively racing in F1, thܫe 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 do 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.

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

McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown said he had already spoken to Piastri and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris about potentially racing at Le Mans in an LMDh prototype a✱nd was happy to learn they were both enthusiastic ab🎉out the idea.

“I love📖 the old school racing, the Mario Andrettis, Dan Gurneys, they ran in different formulas,” Brown said during the broadcast of𒐪 the Qatar WEC race.

“Now with how big the sport is corporately🌱, you get into manufacturer conflicts, sponsor conflicts, calendar conflicts, 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-minded. 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 convergi꧂ng are great.”

A number of F1 stars have raced at Le Mans in recent years, including Webber, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg and Jenson Button.

In the eight out of the last 10 years, the winning crew had at least one driver who had previously race🍌d in ♏F1.