Oscar Piastri insists that a poorly-fitted F1 race seat caused his broken�⭕� rib.

The McLaren driver revealed an X-ray during the summer break whi👍ch showed he sustained the unknown injury earlier in the seas༒on.

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

He has now claimed his race seat was the cause.

“You make꧑ the seat at the start of the year and sometimes you get it a little bit wrong,” Piastri said at Zandvoort ahead of this weekend’s F1 Dutch Grand Prix.

“Some tracks don't expos🅘e it. But I think going from Barcelona, Austria, Silverstone… three pretty hardcore tracks.

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

“But it's all good again now. Weꦰ've changed🌟 the seat and fixed it immediately pretty much. So, all back to normal.”

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

That means he drove with the injury for🐼 three grands prix.

Changes have now been made to alleviat⭕e any pain he i𒈔s still feeling.

“I think we identified what we coul🎶d chan🌞ge on the seat,” Piastri said.

“Even with it being broken, the🏅 pain subsided a lot once we changed a few things.

“Even with driving aroun꧅d 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 Merce⛄des, who have won three of the past four grands 🅰prix.

McLaren will still believe they currently have♐ the fastest car in F1 as they bid to chase down Red Bull.