{"id":526399,"date":"2026-03-08T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:45:07","slug":"piastri-explains-combination-of-bad-factors-behind-shock-pre-race-crash-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/526399\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri explains \u2018combination of bad factors\u2019 behind shock pre-race crash in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri cut a dejected figure as he began to process his shock pre-race accident at the Australian Grand Prix \u2013 a moment he put down to \u201ca combination of bad factors\u201d.<\/p>\n

Piastri<\/a>, who had qualified fifth, was working through the reconnaissance laps at Melbourne\u2019s Albert Park when he lost control of his McLaren<\/a> machine at the exit of Turn 4 and slid helplessly into the concrete wall.<\/p>\n

Significant car damage ruled Piastri out on the spot, meaning he had to make his way back to the paddock and watch Sunday\u2019s action from the sidelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to review fully what happened,\u201d said Piastri as he toured the media pen and opened up on the incident. \u201cI think using\u2026 I got on the kerb a little bit…<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom what we\u2019ve seen as well, I think everything kind of reacted the way it should within the rules, but essentially I had 100 kW more power than I\u2019ve had the whole weekend, at the point that I shifted.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I shifted, it went into wheelspin, and given that I was on the kerb already, it was a combination of bad factors\u2026 Obviously it\u2019s just very disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked how much it hurt him not to be able to race in front of his home crowd, Piastri added: \u201cA lot. It\u2019s a shame. Things like that shouldn\u2019t be happening anywhere, especially at my home race. It\u2019s obviously even more disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n

It meant Piastri\u2019s team mate, Lando Norris<\/a>, was the sole McLaren to take the start \u2013 the reigning World Champion going on to finish fifth behind Mercedes pair George Russell and Kimi Antonelli, and the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri cut a dejected figure as he began to process his shock pre-race accident at the Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-526399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526399","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=526399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}