{"id":162674,"date":"2025-09-23T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162674\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T01:36:09","slug":"anthony-davidson-points-to-reason-for-oscar-piastri-baku-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162674\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davidson points to reason for Oscar Piastri Baku crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

McLaren’s Oscar Piastri<\/a> suffered an uncharacteristically difficult weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n

After crashing during qualifying, the Australian driver started the race already on the back foot from ninth with a replacement chassis. But his weekend went from bad to worse when he jumped the start of the race, battled with the anti-stall system, and then crashed on the first lap at Turn 5.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports F1 analyst and former Formula 1 driver Anthony Davidson analysed the crash during the broadcast at the Baku City Circuit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember the last time that Oscar Piastri made so many mistakes during the course of a weekend, but like [Andrea] Stella was saying, hopefully it\u2019s all accumulated in this one weekend,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s that jump, stops, anti-stall. The anti-stall message is brief on his dash. He would have felt that immediately as you release the clutch and the car doesn\u2019t go anywhere and the engine just free-revs, momentarily. The driver then has to re-press the clutch. You pull the clutch back in and give it another go.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the car jumps violently trying to get back in as you are not holding the proper revs anymore. And that\u2019s why he ends up losing so many positions. He would have definitely got that five-second penalty on top of that. It didn\u2019t put him off initially, he was quick to start making positions again.<\/p>\n

“He took it easy through Turn 2 on these cold tyres at the start of the race. He was up to speed by the time we get to Turn 3 and getting past Albon in the Williams<\/a> straight away into that corner.<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Rudy Carezzevoli \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Then he\u2019s on the attack with Gasly as well, picks off another position there. Round the outside of Turn 4 he goes, you\u2019ve got the Haas there of Ocon and he slots in behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidson argued that the championship leader could have been influenced by Sauber<\/a> driver Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> into thinking he could brake at a different point.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is where it all goes wrong in Turn 5. What I believe happens here is that he\u2019s got Hulkenberg in front of him, trying to make a move around the outside of one of the Haas drivers. I think it in a way goads Piastri into thinking \u2018that\u2019s where I can brake.’ But Hulkenberg runs wide himself, very wide actually,” he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo give Oscar some credit here and some let-off, I think he\u2019s just following in another driver that is also going quite deep. You judge the gap between yourself and the other car and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s caught him out here and why he\u2019s ultimately ended up in the barriers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if the car in front of him, Hulkenberg, had been a bit easier on the brakes, naturally it would have made Oscar brake a bit earlier as well. But I\u2019m giving him excuses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe calibre that he is as a driver, leading the world championship, as difficult as this is, you shouldn\u2019t really be expecting mistakes like that when you are at his level. So a really disappointing weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite crashing out of the race, Piastri continues to lead the drivers’ championship, but the gap to his main rival and McLaren<\/a> team-mate Lando Norris<\/a> is now 25 points. Max Verstappen<\/a>, who heads into the Singapore Grand Prix on the back of back-to-back race wins, is now also posing a threat having closed the gap to Norris to 44 points and the gap to Piastri to 69 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren’s Oscar Piastri suffered an uncharacteristically difficult weekend at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. After crashing during qualifying, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[84366,77894,49,48,578,80578,576,577,590,592,82,4962],"class_list":["post-162674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-anthony-davidson-points-to-reason-for-oscar-piastri-baku-crash","tag-azerbaijan-gp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-f1-azerbaijan-grand-prix-2025","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-mclaren","tag-oscar-piastri","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}