The impact of future McLaren team orde♒rs will be a “hard ask”, Nico Rosberg has warned.

The ‘papaya rules’ - McLaren’s refusal to 🔯treat either Lando Norris or Oscar Piastri as their priority driver - were critic🧜ised at last weekend’s F1 Italian Grand Prix.

Norris and Piastri battled for position on ♏the first l💙ap, but ultimately Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc won at Monza.

McLaren have ꦯhinted that they might reassess their team orders as the drivers’ and constructors’ championship battlꦏes get closer.

Norris is 62 points behind Max Verstappen in the drivers’ standings, and McLaren are just eight p෴oints adrift of Red Bull in the constructors’.

Rosberg told the Sky F1 podcast: “In Lando’s situat🐎ion you want to win races on me🎃rit and not because your teammate helps you.

“Turn 4, for example? You⛄ wouldn’♒t see it as your teammate helping you if the team said ‘calm down, hold position to keep the Ferraris behind’.”

🍰Rosberg added: “It is hard on Oscar. Because he will have a No 1 contract.

“It won’t💦✨ say in his contract ‘you need to help Lando’.

“He’s driving brilliantly also. H🍌e deserves every opportunity to get race wins.

“Mathematically he can st⛄ill be world champion. He’s not that far behind Lando.

“It’s a hard ask for Oscar to start 🧔forfeiting race wins, potentiall✨y.”

McLaren orders 'go against their DNA'

Norris has won grands prix i⛦n Miami and the Nethܫerlands this season, and Piastri won in Hungary.

Piastri’s Hungary win saw McLaren implement a team ༒order to race-leader Norris,𓆏 demanding he allowed his teammate through. Norris eventually complied.

Rosberg was asked why McLaren are now forced to rethink their philosophy midseason, and he said: “The situation is totally unexpected to them. Thei🧜r DNA is to go racing with two No1s with equal opportunity.

“They didn’t see this coming at all. It’s a big l🤡earning process for them.

“It’s a big requir🐬ement to think about, and to see what the best approach 🃏is.

“It goes agaﷺinst their DNA which is two No1 drivers with the same opportu💯nity.”

Rosberg insisted that McLaren could not have planned for Norris and Piastri to be so closely challenging Verstappen in theও drivers’ standings.

He said the team were unabl༺e to change their team ꧅orders philosophy earlier because of their sharp rise to form.

“Ma♕ybe it was early because nobody thought Lando had a real chance at the chܫampionship,” he said.

“Certainly now, because it’s so clear. Th🌺ey are the favourites in the constructors’ championship, and the drivers’ championship is a real possibility.

“Both Andrea Stella and Zak Brown, clearly, are starting🌞 to think strongly about it.”