After faint sparkles in the past 17 races, the dense humidity of the Singapore night sky was where this season’s touchpaper was finally lit. Posing with the hundred or so team members in front of the McLaren garage, celebrating their inevitable constructors’ triumph, you wonder what emotions were running through the head of Oscar Piastri.
For a man whose best quality is his serenity in the heat of battle, Piastri boiled over underneath his visor at Marina Bay. Prodded off-line at turn three by teammate and title rival Lando Norris on lap one, the Australian vented his feelings over team radio to Tom Stallard, race engineer and former Olympic rower.
