Zak Brown issues 'uneducated' retort to Australian politician over Oscar Piastri 'bias'

Zak Brown has branded an Australian Senator as "uninformed and uneducated" following claims of bias against Oscar Piastri in the title race.

Matt Canavan asked earlier this week during a hearing of the Senate's Rural, Regional Affairs and Transportation Committee whether "McLaren is biased against Oscar Piastri and costing him the championship?"

Secretary Jim Betts did not answer the question, with some believing McLaren is biased against Piastri as it wants Lando Norris to be crowned world champion. 

This is based on a number of decisions fans of Piastri believe have gone against him, such as the Monza team order to switch positions back with Norris after a slow pit-stop. 

However, responding to Canavan's comments, Brown firmly rubbished them in a strong retort of the Queensland Senator.

"We have done the best we can. Oscar himself has talked about how fair and equitable [we have been]," Brown told Sky Sports F1. 

"We make mistakes, but Oscar has been our number one spokesperson. He's never said a single word that anything has ever not felt right.

"I saw what the senator said. Clearly, he's very uninformed and uneducated about our sport.

"That's the cool thing about sport. People get very supportive of their heroes, of their countries, so I'm not surprised to see people waving the flag for their drivers.

"It's most important to us that our team knows.

"And there are a lot of uneducated people out there and their views, and I'd spend all day trying to correct them, so it is what it is."

The American later further added to media, including RacingNews365, that the team works on "blocking out" external noise.

"All that's really important to us is how the team operates and works together and works with our drivers, so we block it all out," he said. 

"I have seen it, and some of the comments that you see are very uninformed, but it's sport, it's emotional, people are entitled to their opinions, and I can't go around correcting everyone's views. But you do see some nonsense out there."

Piastri ended qualifying in Abu Dhabi in third place, behind Norris and Verstappen.