{"id":158632,"date":"2025-09-21T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158632\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T10:53:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T10:53:34","slug":"oscar-piastri-franco-colapinto-avoid-f1-azerbaijan-gp-pitlane-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158632\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri, Franco Colapinto avoid F1 Azerbaijan GP pitlane starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> and Franco Colapinto<\/a> have both undergone chassis changes after their qualifying crashes at the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but neither driver will need to start the race from the pitlane.<\/p>\n

Both McLaren<\/a> and Alpine<\/a> managed to complete the rebuild of their respective cars within the time allowed in the parc ferme rules, and apply the same set-up parameters, meaning neither driver will need to serve a pitlane start, as laid out by the F1 sporting regulations.<\/p>\n

Therefore Piastri keeps his ninth-place grid slot, while Colapinto will start the race from 16th.<\/p>\n

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Elsewhere, Ferrari<\/a> was able to rebuild Charles Leclerc’s car without needing to change his chassis after his crash in qualifying so he will line up 10th on the grid<\/p>\n

Azerbaijan GP qualifying set a record for most red flags in an F1 session, with a total of six shown for separate crashes across the three segments<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Six drivers endured hits with Baku\u2019s walls, starting with Alex Albon<\/a>, Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> and then Colapinto in Q1, with Oliver Bearman<\/a> finding the barriers in Q2, and then Leclerc and Piastri suffering the same fate in Q3.<\/p>\n

\"Franco <\/p>\n

Franco Colapinto, Alpine<\/p>\n

Photo by: Joe Portlock \/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Piastri and Colapinto\u2019s cars suffered the most impactful hits and in both cases, after checks by the technicians, damage to the chassis was discovered, forcing McLaren<\/a> and Alpine<\/a> to reassemble a new car around a spare chassis.<\/p>\n

Leclerc’s head-on impact, though violent, was absorbed by the front end with no other repercussions other numerous spare parts needed to restore the SF-25’s front end.<\/p>\n

McLaren boss Andrea Stella put Piastri\u2019s crash down to him losing running time in practice after he was stuck in the garage with an issue during FP1.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little bit of a slow start to the weekend for Oscar. Part of which is the responsibility of the team,\u201d Stell said. \u201cBecause even if the red flag mitigated the time lost, first of all, we had a problem on the car in free practice one with Oscar. Then he was building up in P2.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s also a very unforgiving circuit. So if you are not 100% comfortable, you’d rather take it from the conservative side when it comes to finding your braking points, braking shape. And to some extent, Oscar experienced that in qualifying.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you overdo a little bit, then it can be quite penalising.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar <\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Jayce Illman \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Oscar’s performance in qualifying was very strong. Actually, the first couple of corners before his crash, they were quite a bit faster than pole position. He was on a good pace.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he must have overjudged the grip available at the braking point in corner three. And like I said before, if you lock, then easily you may end up in the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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