In the weeks before the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix, back in October of 2023, McLaren CEO Zak Brown looked me square in the eye and made a straightforward declaration about the team’s driver pairing of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

To ward off interest from its Formula 1 rivals, McLaren will shell out a massive $20 million a year to Oscar Piastri with his new deal, according to a report. Piastri’s former deal was approximately worth $6 million a year and ran until the end of 2026.

The 23-year-old Australian put pen to paper on an extension to his existing deal, which was due to run to the end of 2026, though the exact length of these fresh terms is unknown