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Piastri’s brutal verdict on McLaren disaster: ‘We looked like idiots’
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25/05/2026 at 09:46 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. Oscar Piastri admitted after Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix that McLaren “looked like idiots” after the team’s bold tyre strategy spectacularly imploded in Montreal. What began as a daring roll of the dice for McLaren quickly descended into chaos as both Piastri and team-mate Lando Norris lined up on intermediate tyres despite a rapidly drying circuit. It was the kind of call that could have made McLaren look visionary had the rain intensified. Instead, within two laps, both papaya cars were diving into the pits to abandon the intermediates for slicks – their race effectively wrecked...
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