Oscar Piastri, as everyone knows by now, is not a man of many words. When he binned his McLaren on the very first lap of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, his race engineer asked over the radio "Oscar, are you okay?"; his reply was a calm "Yeah". Moments later, he was unplugged and out.
What was unusual, though, was that he didn’t head straight to the TV pen afterwards to face the journalists’ questions. Perhaps even the ever-cool Piastri found it a little too embarrassing to have messed up so badly. Instead, he grabbed a folding chair and a phone, settled down behind the fence at the crash site, and watched Max Verstappen chip away 25 points from his deficit.
