{"id":495584,"date":"2025-09-21T07:44:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=495584"},"modified":"2025-09-21T07:45:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:45:53","slug":"piastri-crashes-out-on-the-opening-lap-at-the-azerbaijan-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/piastri-crashes-out-on-the-opening-lap-at-the-azerbaijan-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri crashes out on the opening lap at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leader in the championship in F1, Oscar Piastri, crashed out of the Azerbaijan GP on the 1<sup>st<\/sup> lap of the race, as he gave a huge opportunity for his teammate to make his trail a lot smaller.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar, who had 31 points at the top ahead of his McLaren teammate, was mad after the incident. The episode that forced him out of the race happened at Turn 5 when he struck the wall, as that meant that his series of 34 races in which he won points had ended.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drama on the first lap! \ud83d\ude35<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s Piastri heading into the wall and out of the race \u274c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AzerbaijanGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AzerbaijanGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SN9cCVjSGL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SN9cCVjSGL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1969721334281150833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very sorry about what happened,\u201d shared the Formula 1 championship leader on the radio after he crashed out, and then he left the car.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris started from the 7<sup>th<\/sup> position and will try to climb as high as possible until the end of the race in Baku to get as close as possible to his teammate in the standings, to make the upcoming races even more interesting, and to bring the pressure to Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar\u2019s crash forced a safety car after the historic qualifying session with 6 red flags yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oscar Piastri watching the race <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7gVKj685ta\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/7gVKj685ta<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Holiness (@F1BigData) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1BigData\/status\/1969727808990523536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader in the championship in F1, Oscar Piastri, crashed out of the Azerbaijan GP on the 1st lap of the race, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":495586,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[26807,17480],"news_category":[16921,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[26808,20684],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The championship leader crashed out on Lap 1.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495588,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/495584\/revisions\/495588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495584"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=495584"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=495584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}