Oscar Piastri, Franco Colapinto, Interlagos, 2025

Oscar Piastri admitted the crash which put him out of the sprint race at Interlagos was nothing more than a “silly mistake”.

The McLaren driver spun into a barrier at the Curva do Sol in damp conditions on the sixth lap of the race. His car was too badly damaged for him to continue.

“I just dipped a wheel on the white line of the kerb and around I went,” Piastri explained. “A silly mistake, really, or an unfortunate mistake, that’s it.”

Piastri was running third at the time when he crashed. His team mate Lando Norris won the race, extending his lead over Piastri to nine points, while Max Verstappen also gained on him.

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella admitted the race was a “missed opportunity” for Piastri but said the error was understandable. Two other drivers – Nico Hulkenberg and Franco Colapinto – crashed at the same corner at the same lap, while Max Verstappen almost went off in the same way.

“Conditions are tricky, you put the wheel in a kerb and that’s completely unforgiving, there’s no way to control the car,” said Stella. “It happened to three drivers in the same lap, at same the point. So it’s just unfortunate.”

However he remains convinced Piastri is more comfortable with the car in dry conditions this weekend than he has been recently.

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“The most reassuring input thus far is that Oscar has been fast,” he said. “So we now look forward, we want to capitalise this speed in qualifying and then in the race tomorrow.”

Stella expects his driver to rebound quickly from his latest setback. “He will reset very quickly,” said Stella. “I’m sure, as soon as he’s back with the engineers, he will be ready, he’s thinking about what can we do for qualifying, what did we learn from the few laps in the sprint.

“That’s racers, they reset, they go again and you don’t have to carry any disappointment because otherwise you’re just de-powering yourself. Here is the moment to be at the best of our abilities. We know that Oscar is very capable, very quick so we’ll repair the car – it has just arrived – and we’ll go again.”

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