Oscar Piastri has issued a brutal verdict on McLaren’s woes at the Canadian Grand Prix, saying the team “looked like idiots”.

Piastri ended the race down in 11th, while teammate Lando Norris was a DNF in a disastrous race for the Briton.

But McLaren’s GP started with Piastri and Norris lining up on intermediate tyres despite a rapidly drying circuit.

It was the kind of call that could have made McLaren look visionary had the rain intensified. Instead, within two laps, both papaya cars were diving into the pits to abandon the intermediates for slicks.

“There was definitely no standing water, but you could clearly tell where it was wet and where it was dry, and getting to the grid was not easy on slicks; getting to full throttle was pretty tough,” Piastri said.

“Unfortunately for us, it stopped raining as the formation lap started, basically. Just one of those things where if it had rained a little bit more, we would have looked like heroes, but it didn’t, so we looked like idiots. So just one of those things.”