Piastri says Alpine radio rant was out of frustration
The Australian made a comment after having to go off-track to avoid Renault-owned Alpine's Argentine driver Franco Colapinto.
'Alpine still managed to find a way to [expletive] me over, all these years later, huh?' he told race engineer Tom Stallard in an exchange not broadcast on television at the time.
Piastri told Reuters at a McLaren fan event in London's Trafalgar Square on Wednesday that his swearing had just been spur-of-the-moment.
'It was just kind of a frustrating coincidence. My qualifying got hampered by an Alpine. I got impeded in the race by both the Alpines. So it was kind of just a build-up of a few things,' he said. 'And it was more out of frustration.
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