McLaren's Piastri crashes out before Australian Grand Prix
The Hindu
Oscar Piastri crashes out of the Australian Grand Prix before the race, damaging his car during a reconnaissance lap.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri is out of Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after crashing while doing a reconnaissance lap 40 minutes ahead of the season-opening race at Albert Park.
Piastri appeared to lock up when hitting the exit kerb of turn four, skidded and slammed into a barrier, damaging his right front wheel, the front wing and nose of the car.
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Piastri, third in the championship last season, said he was OK on the team radio and exited the car before walking back to the pit.
McLaren boss Zak Brown said they were now focusing on the one car they had in the race driven by defending champion Lando Norris.
"We've not seen anything on the data so far," said Brown. "He didn't say anything on the radio. So we'll do a post-mortem after the race and see what happened.
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