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Piastri had to get first F1 crash 'out of the way'

Oscar Piastri says it was inevitable that he would at some point suffer his first crash in F1, a smash-up the McLaren driver got "out of the way" in qualifying in Montreal. Despite the difficult track conditions that prevailed at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Piastri had steered clear of trouble from the start of the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, including through the first two segments of qualifying. But in Q3, the Aussie blotted his copy when he spun into the barriers at Turn 8, an incident that triggered a brief red flag and left the McLaren charger P9 in the pecking order. Piastri immediately owned up to his driver error which he said was due to being overly aggressive on the...
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