{"id":811008,"date":"2026-07-19T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811008\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:28:10","slug":"f1-2026-belgian-grand-prix-oscar-piastri-angry-over-charles-leclerc-incident-crash-race-position-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811008\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 2026, Belgian Grand Prix: Oscar Piastri angry over Charles Leclerc incident, crash, race position, points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri was left baffled that Charles Leclerc escaped a penalty after the pair made contact at the Belgian Grand Prix \u2014 an incident that impacted the rest of the Australian\u2019s race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On his way to a fifth-place finish for McLaren, Piastri was attacking the Ferrari driver for a podium position during the opening stint when he was squeezed to the edge of the track at Les Combes. <\/p>\n

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\u2018UN-F**KING ACCEPTABLE\u2019: Star erupts over huge title blow; scary pit incident as Piastri left fuming<\/a><\/p>\n

The pair collided and Piastri suffered damage to the floor of his car, which he had to resume racing with. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t leave enough space. That could have been a massive crash,\u201d Piastri said over team radio. <\/p>\n

Leclerc was investigated, but escaped punishment, and later looked sheepish in the cooldown room when the incident was replayed.<\/p>\n

Max Verstappen then joked: \u201cIt was calculated.\u201d <\/p>\n

After the race, Piastri hadn\u2019t changed his viewpoint over the incident. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know where I was supposed to go. So I was equally surprised that nothing came,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut obviously it\u2019s small contact which had big consequences for me. Could have had very big consequences for both of us. But it is what it is.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think from then on the race was definitely more difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe balance suffered quite a lot for the first stint after that, and then we were able to compensate a bit in the second stint and the pace seemed better again.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah, it was just a bit of a tricky race from then on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri responds to rumours | 01:14<\/p>\n

Team principal Andrea Stella spoke further to how heavily Piastri was impacted.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause of losing the board, we lost between five and 10 points of downforce, dependent on the condition,\u201d Stella told Sky Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd obviously when you have to find pace pushing the tyres, then the tyres may degrade more. That\u2019s when we see the pace of stint one and stint two for Oscar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe see that to say that he\u2019s using the tyres a lot, and then the tyres kind of give you the bill at the end of the stint.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Piastri said there were some positive signs to come from the race for McLaren, but said that the team remains too \u201cinconsistent\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis weekend we did look better. Even yesterday for myself. Q3 there was a power unit anomaly, and the rest of my lap was good,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

\u201cLike there\u2019s just a lot of things that skew the picture a bit at the moment. I think hopefully we can get on top of those bits first.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri sits sixth in the season standings on 92 points, 11 points behind world champion teammate Lando Norris, who finished Sunday in seventh. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri was left baffled that Charles Leclerc escaped a penalty after the pair made contact at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-811008","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\/811008","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=811008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}