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Oscar Piastri

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Oscar Piastri is a driver for McLaren.

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"Essentially, I had 100 kilowatts more power than I've had the whole weekend, at the point that I shifted."
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"I’m just very sorry, obviously, for everyone that came out and wanted to support me."
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"A scenario like that just shouldn’t happen, it’s obviously very disappointing it did."
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"There was a big element of it that was me."
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"I have used that exit curb every lap of the weekend, but I didn’t have to."
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"At the same time, I had about a hundred kilowatts of extra power that I didn’t expect, which is not insignificant."
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"We need to review fully what happened."
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"A lot. It’s a shame. Things like that shouldn’t be happening anywhere, especially at my home race."
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"We had a bit of an issue out of the pits with no battery basically."
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"Obviously very disappointing, I don't really have many other words than that. I'm just very sorry, obviously, for everyone that came out and wanted to support me."
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"Clearly, it still lives."
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"I believe I would still have been ahead of Norris had it not been for the collision."
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