Oscar Piastri believes Charles Leclerc should've at least been given a black & white flag in Spa

However, the Formula 1 stewards decided Leclerc didn't deserve a penalty as the Monegasque went on applying the same tactics against rivals later who tried to pass him at the same place, namely teammate Lewis Hamilton and then Kimi Antonelli.

Piastri was clearly not happy with the ruling and said after the race: “From where I was at, I was on the white line and got squeezed.

“I think we were firstly very lucky not to have a bigger crash because, you know, we touched wheels in the start of the braking zone basically.

“But I don't really know where I was supposed to go, so the fact that there was no... I'm not saying it needed to be a penalty necessarily, but at least a black-and-white flag or something like that.

"If we think that that's fine… I mean, it's one thing having touches like that, but even just the incentive of knowing that you can leave everyone the absolute bare minimum space and get away with it, that's not the nicest place to be, I don't think," the Aussie maintained.

Following the incident, Piastri's race was ruined and was even passed in the end by Hamilton, who, on the other hand, was given a penalty for a Lap 1 racing incident.

After finishing fifth, the McLaren driver reflected: “The first stint, I think the damage was the big player, because I lost a decent bit of downforce, but it impacted the balance of the car a fair bit, so I was struggling a lot from then on until we could change the front wing and compensate a little bit,” Piastri explained.

“I think the second stint looked a fair bit better just once Lewis got ahead. The car was tricky to drive in clean air, and once Lewis got ahead and I was in the heavy following, it was incredibly tough again, and once I kind of dropped back a second and a half or two seconds, the pace stabilized again.

"But then even still, the car was still damaged, so that was definitely a factor. But I agree we looked very competitive at the start of the stints and maybe not quite as good at the end," Piastri concluded. (Reporting by Agnes Carlier)