Australian Grand Prix LIVE: Lap-by-lap updates as the biggest rule changes in F1 history are put to the test in Melbourne

The Aussie left his fans absolutely gutted by binning his McLaren on the reconnaissance lap.

‘A scenario like that just shouldn’t happen, so it’s obviously very disappointing,’ he said.

‘We had a couple of things going on but I think the first part I want to stress is that there is certainly a big element of it that was me.

‘Cold tyres, I have used that exit kerb every lap of the weekend, but maybe I didn’t have to.’

Piastri suggested that the incident was somewhat related to battling with F1’s new regulations, but said there was no mechanical fault with his car.

‘The difficult part to take with that is everything was working normally,’ Piastri said.

‘I was backwards before I’d really even had a chance to react. It happened pretty quick.

‘But obviously crashing out of the race trying to get to the race is the situation that we were in.’