Oscar Piastri has stated his clash with Carlos Sainz was \u201cone of the dumbest things\u201d he’s ever seen.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The duo came together while Piastri was fighting for victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix, having led through the opening phase of the event.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After making a pit stop, Piastri closed up to the back of Carlos Sainz, but in his attempt to lap him, contact was made between the pair.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It cost Piastri valuable seconds to team-mate Lando Norris, who soon after made a pit stop and moved into the net lead.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The incident sparked outrage over the team radio from Piastri, who was still highly critical of Sainz after the race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me, there\u2019s no excuse at all,\u201d Piastri told Viaplay. \u201cThat\u2019s got to be one of the dumbest things I\u2019ve ever seen on a race track.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t really care what excuse you give.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Piastri went on to retire from the race as an apparent gearbox issue forced him to park up on the side of the road.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Norris went on to seal McLaren’s first win of the season, but Piastri felt he was in a strong position to take the victory before his incidents.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s definitely a lost chance, yes,\u201d\u00a0he added.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pace wasn’t great at all on the hard tyres, but I felt like as long as I held track position, I had a decent chance of hanging on to the end.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn’t going to be pretty, but I felt like it was possible. From that point on, pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, even the things you never think of, did go wrong.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has stated his clash with Carlos Sainz was \u201cone of the dumbest things\u201d he’s ever seen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-545295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}