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Oscar Piastri’s potential win at the Austrian GP was thwarted by Franco Colapinto, who ran him off the track. Piastri remains 15 points ahead in the Drivers’ Championship.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri (AP)
No matter how hard we try sometimes, the past comes back to haunt us in the present.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri most definitely would agree currently, as his former team, Alpine, came back (after three years of him leaving) to inadvertently snatch away what could have been a potential win at the Austrian GP yesterday.
During the Austrian Grand Prix, the Australian was involved in a heated battle with his team-mate Lando Norris, amid traffic, for the lead of the race and the potential win.
And this is when Alpine’s Franco Colapinto came into the picture to ruin it all for him.
Piastri, who was hot on the heels of Norris after the final pit, was run off the track by Colapinto — the rookie was battling with Yuki Tsunoda to avoid finishing last — on Lap 55, thereby costing Piastri the potential win.
For all the trouble, what seemingly pissed fans and followers alike more was that the Argentine was merely handed a five-second penalty.
Two laps later, the championship leader was blocked by Pierre Gasly into Turn 1, adding insult to injury as he attempted to catch Norris.
In a rare moment of frustration for the 24-year-old, Piastri lamented over team radio.
“Alpine still manages to find a way to f**k me over all these years later,” a frustrated Piastri was heard stating.
Thankfully for Piastri, the win wasn’t too costly (at least immediately), since he still holds a slender 15-point lead over Norris in the Drivers’ Championship standings.
Third-placed (and defending four-time champion) Max Verstappen, on the other hand, felt nothing but pure frustration on the same day.
Coming in at P7 after a dismal qualifying, the odds were already stacked up for the Dutchman to will his way back into the Championship race with a potential win yesterday.
But, all hell would break loose in the very first lap for Verstappen, who got caught up in an unfortunate lock-up with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli, who crashed into the Dutchman within the first turn of the race, ruling them both out effectively.
After training in the field of broadcast media, Siddarth, as a sub-editor for News18 Sports, currently dabbles in putting together stories, from across a plethora of sports, onto a digital canvas. His long-term…Read More
After training in the field of broadcast media, Siddarth, as a sub-editor for News18 Sports, currently dabbles in putting together stories, from across a plethora of sports, onto a digital canvas. His long-term… Read More
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