Oscar Piastri says he has learned from his nightmare weekend in Baku, but refuses to dwell on it.

Caught out by the wind in qualifying, meaning that he started a lowly ninth on the grid - the first time since Las Vegas last year that he started outside the second row of thew grid - things went from bad to worse next day when, having jumped the start, the Australian crashed out at the fifth corner.

Though his teammate failed to capitalise a superb drive by Max Verstappen has brought the Dutchman back into the championship picture.

"I think even disregarding who won the race, we don't want to have weekends like Baku," Piastri told reporters in Singapore today, "and we know we can't afford to have weekends like Baku.

"Certainly, from my side of things there were some tough lessons to take," he admitted, "but I think as a team we recognized a few opportunities from the weekend to try and improve. That's always an important thing.

"I think Baku was quite a good reminder of firstly how quickly everything can change, but also on some of the things that have made the season so successful for myself and the team. I think just trying to stay focused on that will naturally take care of the championship picture."

Lessons need to be learned, admits the Australian.

"I think qualifying, the lesson from that was more just around a street circuit is going to bite hard if you try a bit too hard," he said. "I think qualifying was as simple as that.

"But I think the race, the jump start, a combination of factors I would say that kind of led to that. Then obviously the crash, I think it's difficult to remove immediately what went on at the start from that. I think there's some lessons about how I can deal with that better and just lessons on risk I guess is the best way to put it. Again, there's nothing revolutionary that I think needs to change or that I am going to change.

"I think for 16 of the 17 weekends what I've been doing has worked very well," he said. "I think if I make sure I stay focused on the things that have gone well then it will continue to go that way. Nothing revolutionary, I'm just putting it down to some mistakes. Obviously it looks quite dramatic because they're all on the same weekend but nothing more than that really.

"It was relatively easy to move on from," he insisted. "I think in some ways because the mistakes were so obvious, you leave every weekend trying to find how you can improve. But there's some weekends, normally the ones that go well, where it's a bit more difficult to find where it's possible to improve.

"But also if you don't have a clear idea of where things went wrong then often the hardest part is finding where to start. I think when the mistakes and the consequences are so obvious it's quite easy to find where to look. I think the reflection on that has been pretty straightforward and I feel comfortable coming back in now.

"I certainly haven't had to dwell on it too much, the lessons are there but I've been able to move on from it quickly and just approach this weekend like any other weekend."