{"id":291437,"date":"2023-04-30T13:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T13:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=291437"},"modified":"2023-04-30T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T14:58:58","slug":"piastri-cruelled-by-horrible-luck-in-dramatic-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=291437","title":{"rendered":"Piastri cruelled by horrible luck in dramatic race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri<\/a> missed out on the points by less than three seconds at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix<\/a> on Sunday \u2014 and the Aussie is lamenting three doses of awful luck.<\/p>\n

The McLaren rookie was tagged by Williams driver Alex Albon\ufeff on lap one and, on lap nine, was cruelled by a pit stop that took three seconds.<\/p>\n

In another moment of misfortune, Piastri's only pit stop of the race came just before the deployment of a safety car, with the 22-year-old boxing only a couple of laps before yellow flags were waved because of AlphaTauri's Nyck De Vries hitting a wall.<\/p>\n

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Red Bull secured a one-two finish as Sergio Perez<\/a> claimed victory and Max Verstappen<\/a> second.<\/p>\n

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc rounded out the podium as Fernando Alonso, Carlos Sainz, Lewis Hamilton, Lance Stroll, George Russell, Lando Norris and Yuki Tsunoda chalked up points.<\/p>\n

Piastri finished 11th in the street race at Baku City Circuit.<\/p>\n

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Not only was the midfield affected by the safety car, but the battle for victory.<\/p>\n

Shortly after Verstappen pitted while leading on lap 11, Perez pounced on the opportunity to box as the drivers had to slow down behind the safety car.<\/p>\n

\ufeffIt meant Perez was left with the lead with a fresh set of tyres as Verstappen trailed in third.<\/p>\n

While the two-time world champion found a way past Leclerc to move into second, Perez beat his teammate to the chequered flag by just over two seconds.<\/p>\n

The Mexican doubled up at Baku by adding to the sprint race victory he enjoyed a day earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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"Well done guys. We dominated this weekend," Perez told his team over radio.<\/p>\n

"We are in the fight, guys."<\/p>\n

Understandably, Verstappen was dejected.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"It is what it is," the Dutchman said, before describing the safety car timing as "unlucky".<\/p>\n

Perez, who's placed second in the standings, reduced the deficit\ufeff between he and the table-topping Verstappen to six points.<\/p>\n

Aston Martin veteran Fernando Alonso remains in third on 60 points.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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Oscar Piastri missed out on the points by less than three seconds at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday \u2014 and the Aussie is lamenting […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291440,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291437\/revisions\/291440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}