he spun out while downshifting over the curb at turn four on the way to the grid<\/a>, seriously damaging the car and ruining his hopes of a maiden Aussie podium at Albert Park.<\/p>\nAnthony Davidson on Sky F1 pointed to driver error along with \u201cthe combination of suddenly having power and cold tyres\u201d, given how the new cars are half battery-powered and can go from much stronger to much weaker in an instant.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve not seen anything on the data so far or the radio. We\u2019ll do a post-mortem after the race,\u201d McLaren\u2019s Zak Brown said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now we\u2019ve got to focus on the car we\u2019ve got in the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll be sore about that one for a while but he\u2019s a racecar driver who knows how to recover quickly. He\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri has crashed out of the Australian Grand PrixSource: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
This is the first time since 2001 there\u2019s been an Australian Grand Prix without an Australian in it.<\/p>\n
Mercedes are the red-hot favourites for the race, with George Russell dominating qualifying to take pole position ahead of teammate Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n
The Australian F1 Grand Prix begins at 3pm AEDT.<\/p>\n
Follow race day at the Australian F1 Grand Prix live below!<\/p>\n
Red Flags fly in chaotic AUS qualifying | 03:49<\/p>\n
Starting grid for the Australian Grand Prix<\/p>\n
1. George Russell (Mercedes)<\/p>\n
2. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)<\/p>\n
3. Isack Hadjar (Red Bull)<\/p>\n
4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<\/p>\n
5. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – CRASHED OUT ON WAY TO GRID<\/p>\n
6. Lando Norris (McLaren)<\/p>\n
7. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<\/p>\n
8. Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<\/p>\n
9. Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls)<\/p>\n
10. Gabi Bortoleto (Audi)<\/p>\n
11. Nico Hulkenberg (Audi)<\/p>\n
12. Ollie Bearman (Haas)<\/p>\n
13. Esteban Ocon (Haas)<\/p>\n
14. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<\/p>\n
15. Alex Albon (Williams)<\/p>\n
16. Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<\/p>\n
17. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n
18. Sergio Perez (Cadillac)<\/p>\n
19. Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac)<\/p>\n
20. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<\/p>\n
21. Carlos Sainz (Williams)<\/p>\n
22. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri was out of the Australian Grand Prix before it even began, after crashing on the way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-526013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526013","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=526013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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