Oscar Piastri's Baku misery has resurfaced again with the Australian guilty of what a former world champ called a "rookie mistake", blowing the chance of a podium finish while George Russell completed an immaculate lights-to-flag victory in the crashed-marred Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Piastri, whose championship hopes began to crumble last year when he crashed on the tight road circuit with which he's had a "love-hate relationship", this time locked up with third place in his grasp with 10 laps left on Saturday and slid straight into the run-off.
By the time he got back on track, he was 15th, his hopes of any points gone, and he ended up 14th, with McLaren suffering double woe after Lando Norris had earlier crashed out, maddened at being the innocent victim in a multiple crash caused by Franco Colapinto.
