Oscar Piastri insists that a poorly-fitted F1 ra൩ce seat caused his broken rib.

The McLaren drive🧜r revealed an X-ray during the summer🎶 break which showed he sustained the unknown injury earlier in the season.

Piastri even won his first-ever F1 grand prix in Hungary ꧂with the broken rib before he went public with it.

He has now claimed his race seat was the cause.

“You make the seat at the𒉰 start of the year and sometime꧋s you get it a little bit wrong,” Piastri said at Zandvoort ahead of this weekend’s F1 Dutch Grand Prix.

“Some tr♏acks don't expose it. But I think going from Barcelona, Austria, 🉐Silverstone… three pretty hardcore tracks.

“It was just aꦛ bit of🐻 a pressure point which eventually gave up.

“But it's all good again now. We'v🌺e changed th꧋e seat and fixed it immediately pretty much. So, all back to normal.”

Piastri said about his injury: “Th🎉e scan was the day after Silverstone but it was definitely broken before Silverstone.”

That means he drove with the injury for three grands pr𝕴ix.

Changes have now been made to alleviate any pain he is stillꦬ feeling.

“I think we identified what we🃏 could change on the seat,” Piastri s🐽aid.

“Even with it being broken, t⛦he pain subsided a lot once we changed a few things.

“Even with driving arou♔nd Budapest and Spa it was not getting any worse, it was actually getting better.”

McLaren enter the Dutch Grand Prix hoping to wrestle the initiative away from Mercedes, who havꦑe won three of the past four grands🍷 prix.

McLaren will still believe they currently have the faꦬstest c🐻ar in F1 as they bid to chase down Red Bull.