{"id":50272,"date":"2025-10-13T05:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-missed-mclarens-celebration-why-wasnt-he-there\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T05:12:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:12:45","slug":"piastri-missed-mclarens-celebration-why-wasnt-he-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-missed-mclarens-celebration-why-wasnt-he-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri missed McLaren’s celebration: Why wasn’t he there?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piastri’s Absence from McLaren Celebration<\/h2>\n\nFollowing McLaren’s victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, the podium celebration was marked by a notable absence: Oscar Piastri, who leads the drivers’ championship.\n\nPiastri finished in fourth place, behind his teammate and championship rival, Lando Norris. This result was enough for McLaren to secure their constructors’ championship.\n\nThe race was full of controversies for the team. Norris overtook Piastri on the first lap, almost sending the Australian driver into the wall. Piastri expressed his frustration with the maneuver.\n\n\n
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That’s not fair. I’m sorry, that’s not fair. If he has to avoid Verstappen colliding with his teammate, it’s a pretty bad job of avoiding.<\/p>\n\nOscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nNorris’s maneuver reduced Piastri’s lead in the championship to three points. After the podium ceremony for the top three, an unusual scene unfolded, with the McLaren team invading the podium to celebrate.\n\nAs “We Are The Champions” by Queen played, Norris was joined by team principal Andrea Stella, McLaren CEO Zak Brown, and most of the team to celebrate the achievement.\n\nThe absence of Piastri generated speculation, but the reality was less dramatic.\n\nAfter a Formula 1 race, the drivers follow a specific protocol according to their position. The top three are interviewed by television, then go to the cool-down room and finally to the podium. Drivers outside the podium must go to the FIA scales and then to the media zone for interviews.\n\nAs he finished fourth, Piastri had to follow this protocol. It is common for drivers to do interviews while the national anthem is playing.\n\nThe rules are strict. For example, Lewis Hamilton was penalized and did not return to the press area after his interview.\n\nPiastri, when questioned about the incident with Norris, stated in the media zone: “I need to see the incident in more detail. Once I have the full picture, we will talk about it. I want to see exactly what happened before drawing conclusions.”\n\nPiastri joined McLaren for the planned celebration: a photo in the pit-lane<\/em> with both drivers, the team and Stella.\n\nAnother notable absence in the photo was CEO Brown, who had already left the circuit.\n\n“Work done. See you in Austin,” said Brown.\n\nThe United States Grand Prix is one of the six remaining races of the 2025 season.\n\nPiastri leads Norris by 22 points in the drivers’ championship. Both drivers hope to become McLaren’s first champion since 2008.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Piastri’s Absence from McLaren Celebration Following McLaren’s victory at the Singapore Grand Prix, the podium celebration was marked by a notable absence: Oscar Piastri, who leads the drivers’ championship. Piastri finished in fourth place, behind his teammate and championship rival, Lando Norris. This result was enough for McLaren to secure their constructors’ championship. The race […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[657,177,176,9369],"class_list":{"0":"post-50272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-f1","8":"tag-mclaren","9":"tag-oscar-piastri","10":"tag-singapore-gp"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}