Andrea Stella has detailed the process McLaren go through when issuing team orders to avoid a Lando Norris vs Oscar Piastri fall-out.
Piastri and Norris finished on the podium at the F1 Qatar Grand Prix, a day after the rookie won the sprint race.
But teammate vs teammate issues are inevitable within Formula 1, and Norris bemoaned a “lack of talent” for his frustrating weekend as Piastri won the sprint, a major milestone in the career of a future star. “We don’t talk about Aston, we just talk about doing a good job. And we do a good job if we stick with our racing principles. One of the principles is that the team comes first, we are fair.”“We always, as part of our principles, tell the drivers: ‘When we give you an instruction, come back to us, because we want to be 100% sure that we understand your position.
“Lando was quite quick but struggled to put it all together. In Q3 he was twice 20.0 which would’ve been P2, but it got deleted because of track limits. There are positives, progress from both sides of the garage. At Suzuka we talked about Oscar improving his race pace - look at his race pace today. We remind ourselves what we’re here for - take McLaren to where we belong. Then we think about internal competition.
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