Oscar Piastri has said he adhered to his usual Monday morning supermarket trip after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, highlighting that "nothing special" was required after his calamitous round in Baku.
The F1 drivers' championship leader crashed in qualifying and into retirement on the first lap of the race — after a false start — during his worst weekend of the season so far.
However, despite seeing his lead over Lando Norris in the championship standings cut to 25 points, the Australian did not feel the need to go anywhere "exotic" to recover, instead opting for his usual routine.
The 24-year-old was keen to underline that he has approached the lead-up to the subsequent Singapore Grand Prix, where the battle with his McLaren team-mate resumes, as he otherwise would.
When asked by RacingNews365 in front of media at the Marina Bay Street Circuit if there was anything in particular he did to clear his mind, Piastri replied: "Not massively.
"Making sure that I spent the time kind of going over and analysing what went wrong on the weekend is obviously important.
"But once I'd done that, nothing special. Monday morning, I was walking to the supermarket and getting my groceries, which I do after every race. So there's nothing special.
"I didn't go and book myself a trip to somewhere exotic or anything like that. I just had a very normal week; went to the sim like normal.
"I guess that's kind of the gist of what I'm trying to say. I've approached everything like normal. Yes, the consequences were bigger and more dramatic, but the process of looking through things has been exactly the same as every weekend."
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Whilst conceding that Piastri's poor showing in Baku was uncharacteristic, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella pointed out post-race that even the greats experience difficult weekends during their time in F1.
When those remarks were put to his driver in Singapore, the nine-time grand prix winner called it "reassuring", whilst emphasising the other 16 rounds of the season thus far.
"Obviously, I hope that it's kind of all in one weekend. There's no guarantee that that's the way it will go," Piastri said.
"But, yes, it is kind of reassuring in some ways to look back at some of the greats of the sport who have had tough moments.
"Everyone has tough moments at some point in their career. So I've been just trying to take the lessons from that and try and move on from it and just go back to looking at the positives of this season.
"The most recent race is obviously freshest in your mind, and it's quite easy to have every thought be about that, but there's been 16 other weekends that have been very strong this year.
"So I take a lot of confidence from that and just try and take the lesson and move on."
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