McLaren CEO Zak Brown confirmed the team did not want168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris to hand teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri victory in the F1 Qatar Grand Prix sprint race.

After controlling the final sprint race of the season in Qatar, Norris moved aside coming out of the last corner to gift the win to ꦐPiastri. The Briton explained it was payback for when Piastri let him win the Brazil spri⛦nt race at a time he was still in championship contention.

McLaren did not intend for the swap to take place, with Norris even told over team radio at one stage to hold position with Merced🦹es’ George Russell running close behind the Papaya pair.

But Brown said he had no issue with Norr▨is taking the maܫtter into his own hands.

“That was not the pl♑an all along,” Brown told the official F1 channel. “The 🎉plan all along was to try and finish one-two. It was a close race that was 19 laps of no [finger]nails. That was Lando’s decision. And good on him.”

Stella also praises Norris

McLaren team principal Andrea 🍰Stella echoed Brown’s comments by heapi🤪ng praise on Norris’ selfless act in Qatar.

“When it comes to the swap at the end, Lando was 𝓀very willing to return th♏e favour that Oscar did to him in Brazil,” Stella told Sky Sports F1.

“We actually wanted to release the pressure off Lando by saying on the radio that we were happy to fi🗹nish in this order, but Lando managed to find the oppo🐭rtunity to return the favour.

“Once agai♈n it shows the collaboration, the unity, the cohesion that we have at McLaren is a point of strength and is the foundation to keep staying in this quest for the championship.”

The r🔥esult extended McLaren’s lead over Ferrari to 30 points in the constructors’ championship.

If McLaren can replicate their 1-2 fi📖nish from the sprint race, they will clinch their first constructors’ crown since 1998.