Earlier this year, speculation arose linking Oscar Piastri with a sensational switch to Ferrari for the 2027 season, but according to Express Sport readers, the Australian would be foolish to leave the team that has afforded him a shot at the 2025 Drivers’ Championship title.

Piastri is no stranger to making bold career decisions. Rather than wait on the sidelines for an opportunity with Alpine, he upped sticks and signed for McLaren as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement for the 2023 season. This decision paid off, and he heads into the final three races of the 2025 campaign with a shot – albeit a fading one – at the title.

However, according to the Swiss publication Blick, Piastri has his sights set on a move to Ferrari for the 2027 season. This is likely the first possible opportunity for another driver to compete for the Scuderia, as Lewis Hamilton remains committed to the Italian squad for 2026.

Should Piastri decide that Ferrari is his preferred destination, he will have to convince Fred Vasseur and the organisation’s hierarchy that he is a better prospect than Oliver Bearman. The Essex-born Brit has dazzled in his rookie season and is on a four-race run of top-10 finishes with Haas.

In a survey of 3,800 Express Sport readers, only 43 per cent believed that Piastri should consider swapping his current home in Woking for Maranello, with the remaining 57 per cent voting in favour of extending his stay with McLaren.

The rumours surrounding Piastri’s future came at the height of concerns over team orders. The Australian was particularly aggrieved by incidents in Monza and Singapore, recently conceding that the former fed into his poor weekend in Baku.

“Obviously, the race before that was Monza, which I didn’t feel was a particularly great weekend from my own performance, and there was obviously what happened with the pitstops,” Piastri told F1’s Beyond the Grid podcast earlier this week.

“But then also in Baku itself, Friday was tough, things weren’t working, I was overdriving, I wasn’t very happy with how I was driving and ultimately probably trying to make up for that a little bit on Saturday.

“I think there was kind of some things in the lead-up, let’s say, that were maybe not the most helpful and then things that happened on the weekend. We had an engine problem in FP1 that kind of unsettled things a bit, and then I was driving not that well. We were on C6 tyres [Pirelli’s new, softest compound] that weekend, which are notoriously tricky to handle. There were just a lot of little things that eventually kind of added up.”