In a wet field of grass there Oscar Piastri sat, the man in orange marooned by his spinning wheels. The Australian driver – after a rapid rise in Formula One – was all of a sudden stationary.
The expectations of F1 mean that those not moving forward are going backward. Sure enough, the hometown hero tumbled down the order, from a podium sure-thing, cascading through the points to a place among the back markers. And as his position sank, so too did the hearts of local fans, in a flash of disappointment now all too familiar.
