the team orders drama earlier in the month at Monza<\/a>.<\/p>\nIn fact, speaking on the F1\u2019s own Beyond the Grid podcast, when reflecting on his struggles at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix Piastri suggested he was finding it hard to move past what happened at Monza as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately (it\u2019s) a combination of quite a few things,\u201d Piastri said on the podcast. \u201cObviously, the race before that was Monza, which I didn\u2019t feel was a particularly great weekend from my own performance and there was obviously what happened with the pitstops.<\/p>\n
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\u201cBut then also in Baku itself, Friday was tough, things weren\u2019t working, I was overdriving, I wasn\u2019t very happy with how I was driving and ultimately probably trying to make up for that a little bit on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there was kind of some things in the lead-up, let\u2019s say, that were maybe not the most helpful and then things that happened on the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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 that weekend, which are notoriously tricky to handle. There were just a lot of little things that eventually kind of added up.\u201d<\/p>\n
“The blame is not all on Oscar!” | 00:36<\/p>\n
Piastri, who now trails Norris by 24 points ahead of next week\u2019s race in Las Vegas, went on to say Baku was the \u201cperfect storm of quite a few things\u201d, calling it \u201cthe worst weekend I\u2019ve ever had in racing\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no beating around the bush, that was the worst weekend I\u2019ve ever had in racing, but probably the most useful in some ways,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, when you can start to look at things like that, normally that helps you out quite a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201c(If) you look at some of the names that have had some pretty shocking weekends, or almost unbelievable weekends or races or moments in their career where things have gone wrong; it happens to anyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not one person in racing that doesn\u2019t have some kind of disastrous story of how a weekend went wrong for them. Looking at it from that perspective does help a lot, but you still need to learn the things you need to learn from weekends like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri finishes 5th after crash chaos | 03:20<\/p>\n
F1 TEAM SORRY AFTER STAFF MEMBER APPEARS TO ENCOURAGE LANDO BOOING<\/p>\n
Racing Bulls released a statement apologising after a video surfaced on social media appearing to show a team member giving a thumbs down as Lando Norris collected his winner\u2019s trophy at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Norris was booed by spectators at last weekend\u2019s race and the Racing Bulls employee appeared to be encouraging the behaviour, with a fellow worker pictured trying to put their arm down and stop them. <\/p>\n
In a statement, Racing Bulls said it was \u201caware\u201d of the video and stressed \u201cit doesn\u2019t reflect our team\u2019s values or the spirit of VCARB\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe matter has been handled internally,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe in celebrating great racing and showing respect to every driver, team, and fan both on and off the track.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crowd\u2019s behaviour was later condemned<\/a>, although Norris himself didn\u2019t seem too fussed by it. <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s one weekend at a time. I\u2019m happy, I\u2019m focused on myself,\u201d Norris said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep my head down, I ignore all of this, keep to myself. It\u2019s working at the minute, so I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Oscar Piastri has opened up on \u201cthe worst weekend I\u2019ve ever had in racing\u201d and how McLaren\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-280382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-f1","11":"tag-formula-1","12":"tag-formula1","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}