McLaren’s team orders U-Turn after Lando Norris F1 title bid collapse

ꦡMcLaren are set to shift their stance on team orders with Landoﷺ Norris's faint F1 title hopes all but over.

Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris
Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri says McLaren have changed their stance on using team orders with teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris’s F1 title hopes effectively over.

Norris’s ambition of winning this year’s world championship suffered a hammer blow as he slipped from pole position to sixth at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, while title rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen staged an incredible fightback victory from 17th.

🔯The result saw Verstappen extend his champ🍌ionship advantage to 62 points with three races remaining, all but ending Norris’s hopes of winning a first drivers’ title this year.

Verstappen will be crowned world champion at this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix if he leads by at lea🤪st 60 points after the race.

Norris’s fading championship hopes mean that McLaren will no longer make Piastri, who gave up the sprint wiꦉn to Norris in Brazil, play a supporting role.

Asked if he would now return to an e🐬qual footing with Norris, Piastri told media in Las Vegas: “Pretty much, yes.

“There’s 🌟still some, let's say, very specific scenarios where I might be needed to help out. But for the very large majority of situatio🧔ns, it's back to how it was.

“The drivers’ championship pictur🌄e is very slim, and the constructors’ championship is certainly not over for 🌄us.

“It's certainly not a done deal, so that's definitely the biggest thing.🍬 So it's a very specific few scenarios that maybe I'll still help out if that's what I'm asked to do, but I'm going into the weekend trying to win.”

McLaren leaꦺd Ferrari by 36 points in the constructors’ championship, while Red Bull are 49 points further back in third.

While Piastri was happy to play a su♈pporting role to Norris, he stressed he wants to make sure he doesn’t find himself in the same position next season.

"To be honest, I wasn't that disappointed with giving that 💖up," the Australian ꧃added.

"Of course I would have loved to have won the sprint, but a [it is] very different scena𓆏rio to a 🉐grand prix.

"I proved wha🐽t I wanted to prove,ꦡ in terms of qualifying on pole, and that was just to myself.

"Qualifying on pole for the sprint, even if I had won the sprint, qualifying on pole was probably the m🌠ore satisfying thing for me.

"I knew I did the right things in the sprint, and that's good fo🍬r me.

"I'm happy that we don't have to go into those kind of things as much anymore, and obviously next year, I wꦦant 🧔to make sure that I'm not in a position, championship wise, to be subject to that.

"But in reality, I probably needed to help out at tha♚t one time in Brazil and that's been ꦬit. So it's been a lot of talk for not much on-track action."

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