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Ian Chadband

Piastri ignored race engineer to make Baku-winning move

Oscar Piastri has revealed how he ignored instructions from his race engineer to pull off the daring and precarious overtake that was to win him the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

Revelling in what he called "probably the best win in my career" on Sunday, the young Australian F1 superstar smiled about the moment on the Baku street circuit when he went for broke with his lap-20 pass to surprise Ferrari's race leader Charles Leclerc.

Piastri believed he had to make an attack swiftly in his McLaren after a pit-stop - but Tom Stallard urged caution over the radio, wanting the 23-year-old to be easy on his new tyres.

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