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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Sport
Jack Snape

Oscar Piastri swore at his McLaren crew in frustration in Hungary, but any Formula One revival is up to him

Oscar Piastri
Oscar Piastri looked likely to win his first GP in almost a year in Hungary – and then ‘everything that could have gone wrong did’. Photograph: EYE4images/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

Blasphemy from Oscar Piastri had to be censored on more than one occasion during his frustrating Hungarian Grand Prix. But it was the Australian’s use of the M-word that will fuel speculation about his future at the halfway mark of a disappointing Formula One season.

“Mate, just don’t fucking talk to me now,” Piastri said down his radio to his crew after the moment a possible race victory was lost, when the team’s pit stop strategy left him in traffic and exposed to backmarker incompetence. “Nice of you guys to factor that one in by the way, thanks,” Piastri added.

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