{"id":818156,"date":"2026-07-23T06:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:11:12","slug":"piastri-slams-f1s-reliance-on-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/818156\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri slams F1\u2019s reliance on computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piastri also experienced frustrations with the new power unit regulations. The McLaren driver qualified seventh, four places behind teammate Lando Norris, and was unable to match the Briton&#8217;s straight-line performance despite making changes in an attempt to address the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the extent to which the electrical side of the new engines can influence the competitive order, Piastri did not hold back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt sucks. I can\u2019t really say it any other way than that,\u201d Piastri said about how much the electrical part of the new engines dictate results this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve got qualifying grids decided by computers behaving or misbehaving, it\u2019s a pretty c&#8211;p way of going racing,\u201d the McLaren driver added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Piastri also experienced frustrations with the new power unit regulations. The McLaren driver qualified seventh, four places behind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-818156","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\/818156","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=818156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}