“Extraordinary” team radio as McLaren make demands to Lando Norris
"The way to win a champi🌃onship is not𓃲 by yourself,” McLaren told Lando Norris
McLaren’s team orders to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris were labelled “extraordinary” by Martin Brundle at the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.
Norris eventually succumbed to his team’s demands to allow teammate♌ Oscar Piastri to overtake with two laps remaining.
Piastri went on to win his maiden F1 grand prix but the w🅷ords exchanged between Norris and his bosses were in the spotlight.
After ꦑPiastri 𝔍pitted, new race leader Norris was calmly told via team radio: "We want to re-establish the order at your convenience.”
On Lap 51 of 70, with No🎶rris 3.5s ahead and leading the race, Piastri was told: "Once you get to Lando, we will swap the positions. But we want to avoid Lando giving up a lot of race time.”
Over the next few laps, Norris maintained his lead and showed little indication that he was willing to concede the victory to hisꦫ teammate.
"You should have pitted him first,ꦚ” Norris snappe𝔍d on Lap 54.
His race engineer replied: "Iꦜ know you'll do the𒁏 right thing."
Sky 🅰Sports’ Martin Brundle insisted McLaren would face “a major issue” and “a breach of trust” if Norris did not comply with orders to let Piastri pass.
With eight laps to go, Norrꦡis was told via his radio: "Just remember every single Sun🧸day morning meeting we have…”
With six laps left, Norris’♏ lead was up to almost six seconds.
"Lando, he can't catch you up♏,” he was told by his race engineer.
“You've proved your point. And it really🐻 doesn't mattꦏer.”
He was told with four laps left: "The 🔥way to win a championship is not by yourself.
“You're going to need Oscar. And you're going to need the tea🍬m.”
With two laps left, Norris finally slowed down 𒊎and allowꦍed Piastri to go through. Norris finished second, Lewis Hamilton third.
It means that Norris - who won his first F1 grand prix inဣ Miami - has narrowly missed more 💧wins in Austria, Silverstone and now Hungary.
“The team asked me to, so I did it,” were Norris’ fꦕirst words in parc feꦆrme about McLaren’s team order.
Piastri said: "The ♒longer you leav🔜e it of course, the more you get a bit nervous.
"It was well-executed by the team, and yeah, I think it was the right thing.🎶 I put myself in the right position nat the start.
"With the diff💧erent strategy we had, yes my pace was probably wasn’t as quick as I would have liked in the last stint, but I was still in the right position to make it happen. So yeah, well executed from the team."
James was a sports journalist at Skౠy Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
