Oscar Piastri probably wished he’d stayed at home in the moment before his McLaren crunched the wall for the second time across the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend.
From his power unit issue in FP1 (albeit one mitigated by the 25-minute red flag), the weekend snowballed with a near-miss in FP2, where he banged the Turn 15 Tecpro barrier, and a crash in qualifying at Turn 3. It then reached its denouement with his lap-one blunder at Turn 5 – after having already jumped the start.