{"id":59614,"date":"2026-05-25T11:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/59614\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:34:32","slug":"oscar-piastri-under-fire-after-aussie-wipes-out-f1-rival-six-drivers-fail-to-finish-canada-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/59614\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri under fire after Aussie wipes out F1 rival, six drivers fail to finish Canada GP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> is being torched by F1<\/a> fans after an ugly incident in the Canadian Grand Prix that ruined Alex Albon\u2019s race. The Aussie driver suffered a disastrous start to Sunday\u2019s race, forced to pit almost immediately after McLaren sent their drivers out on the wrong tyres.<\/p>\n

Piastri was desperate to make up ground after returning from the pits in 14th place. But the Aussie went too far on lap 15 when he tried to get up the inside of Albon.<\/p>\n

\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri wiped Alex Albon out of the Canadian Grand Prix. Image: Getty\/F1<\/p>\n

Piastri gave Albon no room while trying to pass him on a corner, crashing into the side of his rival. Albon was forced out of the race as a result, and Piastri later copped a 10-second penalty after an investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t really defend that if you\u2019re Piastri,\u201d said Martin Brundle on Sky Sports commentary. \u201cHe thought there was a gap but there wasn\u2019t. It\u2019s a 10-second penalty because it knocked Albon out of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri copped a pasting on social media, with fans questioning what he was doing. One person wrote: \u201cPiastri dives in with extreme optimism (seriously, what did he think he was gonna pull off there?) and ends Albon’s race!\u201d<\/p>\n

Another wrote: \u201cPiastri went deep into the hairpin and hit the side of Albon. He’s surely getting a penalty for that. Nightmare race for him so far.\u201d While a third added: \u201cAmateur hour from Piastri.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Oscar<\/p>\n

Oscar Piastri crashed into the side of Alex Albon. Image: F1<\/p>\n

Six drivers fail to finish in Canadian Grand Prix carnage<\/p>\n

Albon was one of six drivers who failed to finish the race as carnage swept through the Canadian Grand Prix. George Russell suffered a dramatic DNF from first-place after a battle with Mercedes teammate Kimi Antonelli.<\/p>\n

Russell was leading on lap 30 when he sailed off the track and had to park his car. He jumped out of the car and hurled his head-rest in anger, earning a sanction from F1 officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is very painful for his championship chances,\u201d Brundle said. \u201cYou can see something has broken behind him, hydraulic-wise or power unit-wise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Piastri\u2019s teammate Lando Norris was forced out of the race with mechanical issues, capping a dirty day for the British team. Sergio Perez, Fernando Alonso and Arvid Lindblad were the other drivers who didn\u2019t finish.<\/p>\n

Antonelli won tha race ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. Piastri was way down in 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri is being torched by F1 fans after an ugly incident in the Canadian Grand Prix that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25098,17,15721,17535,14410,1710,24629],"class_list":["post-59614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alex-albon","tag-canada","tag-canadian-grand-prix","tag-f1","tag-george-russell","tag-martin-brundle","tag-oscar-piastri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}