Oscar Piastri has said he adhered to his usual Monday morning
supermarket trip after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, highlighting that
"nothing special" was required after his calamitous round in Baku.
The F1 drivers' championship leader crashed in qualifying and into
retirement on the first lap of the race — after a false start —
during his worst weekend of the season so far. However, despite
seeing his lead over Lando Norris in the championship standings cut
to 25 points, the Australian did not feel the need to go anywhere
"exotic" to recover, instead opting for his usual routine. The
24-year-old was keen to underline that he has approached the
lead-up to the subsequent Singapore Grand Prix, where the battle
with his McLaren team-mate resumes, as he otherwise would. When
asked by RacingNews365 in front of media at the Marina Bay Street
Circuit if there was anything in particular he did to clear his
mind, Piastri replied: "Not massively. "Making sure that I spent
the time kind of going over and analysing what went wrong on the
weekend is obviously important. "But once I'd done that, nothing
special. Monday morning, I was walking to the supermarket and
getting my groceries, which I do after every race. So there's
nothing special. "I didn't go and book myself a trip to somewhere
exotic or anything like that. I just had a very normal week; went
to the sim like normal. "I guess that's kind of the gist of what
I'm trying to say. I've approached everything like normal. Yes, the
consequences were bigger and more dramatic, but the process of
looking through things has been exactly the same as every weekend."
'Everyone has tough moments…' Whilst conceding that Piastri's
poor showing in Baku was uncharacteristic, McLaren team principal
Andrea Stella pointed out post-race that even the greats experience
difficult weekends during their time in F1. When those remarks were
put to his driver in Singapore, the nine-time grand prix winner
called it "reassuring", whilst emphasising the other 16 rounds of
the season thus far. "Obviously, I hope that it's kind of all in
one weekend. There's no guarantee that that's the way it will go,"
Piastri said. "But, yes, it is kind of reassuring in some ways to
look back at some of the greats of the sport who have had tough
moments. "Everyone has tough moments at some point in their career.
So I've been just trying to take the lessons from that and try and
move on from it and just go back to looking at the positives of
this season. "The most recent race is obviously freshest in your
mind, and it's quite easy to have every thought be about that, but
there's been 16 other weekends that have been very strong this
year. "So I take a lot of confidence from that and just try and
take the lesson and move on."
supermarket trip after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, highlighting that
"nothing special" was required after his calamitous round in Baku.
The F1 drivers' championship leader crashed in qualifying and into
retirement on the first lap of the race — after a false start —
during his worst weekend of the season so far. However, despite
seeing his lead over Lando Norris in the championship standings cut
to 25 points, the Australian did not feel the need to go anywhere
"exotic" to recover, instead opting for his usual routine. The
24-year-old was keen to underline that he has approached the
lead-up to the subsequent Singapore Grand Prix, where the battle
with his McLaren team-mate resumes, as he otherwise would. When
asked by RacingNews365 in front of media at the Marina Bay Street
Circuit if there was anything in particular he did to clear his
mind, Piastri replied: "Not massively. "Making sure that I spent
the time kind of going over and analysing what went wrong on the
weekend is obviously important. "But once I'd done that, nothing
special. Monday morning, I was walking to the supermarket and
getting my groceries, which I do after every race. So there's
nothing special. "I didn't go and book myself a trip to somewhere
exotic or anything like that. I just had a very normal week; went
to the sim like normal. "I guess that's kind of the gist of what
I'm trying to say. I've approached everything like normal. Yes, the
consequences were bigger and more dramatic, but the process of
looking through things has been exactly the same as every weekend."
'Everyone has tough moments…' Whilst conceding that Piastri's
poor showing in Baku was uncharacteristic, McLaren team principal
Andrea Stella pointed out post-race that even the greats experience
difficult weekends during their time in F1. When those remarks were
put to his driver in Singapore, the nine-time grand prix winner
called it "reassuring", whilst emphasising the other 16 rounds of
the season thus far. "Obviously, I hope that it's kind of all in
one weekend. There's no guarantee that that's the way it will go,"
Piastri said. "But, yes, it is kind of reassuring in some ways to
look back at some of the greats of the sport who have had tough
moments. "Everyone has tough moments at some point in their career.
So I've been just trying to take the lessons from that and try and
move on from it and just go back to looking at the positives of
this season. "The most recent race is obviously freshest in your
mind, and it's quite easy to have every thought be about that, but
there's been 16 other weekends that have been very strong this
year. "So I take a lot of confidence from that and just try and
take the lesson and move on."
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