Oscar Piastri has told Carlos Sainz to "look in the mirror" following the pair's crash at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, which occurred while the former was trying to lap the latter. Piastri said that Sainz is often critical of other drivers but needed to introspect following the incident at the Hungaroring.

A massive moment in the race occurred when Piastri went to lap both Fernando Alonso and Sainz during the Hungarian GP while the two were locked in a battle themselves. As Piastri attempted the overtake at Turn 2, Sainz turned into him and crashed, leading to the McLaren driver losing lap time. This was followed by Lando Norris pitting and completing a successful overcut on his teammate.

After the race, Piastri had no sympathy for Sainz, who explained that he had no blue flags on his dash, saying he needed to be more aware of his surroundings, as he also urged the Spaniard to "look in the mirror." After the race on Sunday, Piastri told Sportskeeda:

Oscar Piastri also said he had no qualms with McLaren's strategy for him, saying he would have been ahead of Norris without "being crashed into." In the end, the 25-year-old didn't even finish the race, with a gearbox issue causing him to retire 16 laps from the end.

Carlos Sainz claimed that his crash with Oscar Piastri at the Hungarian GP was a "racing incident", and that it did not disturb the Aussie driver's race "too much." The Williams driver said he feels he has a "pretty good excuse" for why the moment happened as he was not shown blue flags on his dash.

Speaking to the media about the incident after the race, Sainz said [via F1 TV]:

Sainz even seemed to suggest that Oscar Piastri could perhaps have also been more "careful" in the moment, given he was fighting for a podium position. The 31-year-old said Piastri could have shown more caution given many of the backmarkers were having issues with blue flags during the race.

But on-board footage of the previous lap showed that the light panels on the track did show blue flags to Sainz, and he was even made aware of Piastri coming up behind him by his race engineer earlier in the lap before the crash. Sainz received a five-second time penalty for the incident.

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