Join now and get your first month for just $1<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe images included one of him alone in the gym, while he also posted a snap of him with his dog, and one of Piastri fans wearing a mask of his face.<\/p>\n
Piastri nailed the caption on the post, writing: \u201cTwo weeks of watching F1.\u201d<\/p>\n
And F1 fans responded by offering their support to the Aussie driver as he bids to return to form at the Suzuka Circuit.<\/p>\n
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A.V Nurdariga said: \u201cIt\u2019s a pity that you couldn\u2019t participate in the race. But let\u2019s hope that the team will be able to normalise the car before the Japanese Grand Prix, and you will be able to take pole!\u201d<\/p>\n
While Nitin Saxena added: \u201cLets go Oscar, you deserve more!\u201d<\/p>\n
Malena replied: \u201cYou\u2019re so funny. Lets just not make it three, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
And Luckie Steve said: \u201cWe\u2019re all just pretending the season starts in Japan tbh.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri finished third in last year\u2019s Drivers\u2019 Championship, 13 points adrift of teammate Lando Norris and 11 behind Red Bull\u2019s Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
But it is Mercedes that have made a huge statement in the opening two races of 2026, securing one-two finishes in both as George Russell and Kimi Antonelli steal a march on the rest of the field.<\/p>\n
Despite watching on for the second straight race, Piastri had a wry smile on his face as he spoke to the media as the China Grand Prix got underway.<\/p>\n
He said he was not aware of the issue until he \u201cgot out of the car\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an electrical issue on the PU side. It\u2019s disappointing,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n
Piastri was clearly distracted when interviewed during the race, trying to look over his shoulder to watch the race unfold on a nearby TV screen inside the F1 pit lane paddock.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve watched two F1 races from the sideline. The Ferrari\u2019s look pretty quick at the moment, so we\u2019ll see how long that laughs for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has gone viral on social media after sharing a hilarious post mocking his own nightmare start…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-552207","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\/552207","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=552207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}