Oscar Piastri sheds light on McLaren's F1 Sunday morning meetings after team orders drama
Oscar Piastri reflects on his maiden F1 victory and opens ꦰup on McLaren's pre-race morning meetings.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri has shed light on McLaren’s pre-race F1 dis♊cussions after they were engulfed in a team or🧜ders row at the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Piastri took the lead on the opening lap at the Hungaroring ahead of McLaren teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.
However, things were made complicated for the Woking outfit after they stopped🐽 Norris first for t𒊎he second round of stops.
McLaren were vocal over team radio in instructing N🤪orris to switch position🤡s, but he initially refused, before relinquishing the lead in the closing laps.
Norris’ race engineer, Will Joseph, made r🍃eference to the Sunday morning meetings whe𝕴n attempting to get his driver to listen to the instructions.
Speaking after his maiden win, Piastri addressed the p꧑re-race discussions.
“I had a lot of trust in the team and Lando,” he said. “Lando was fas♊t at the end, that was clear. But the strategy that we went onto meant it was effec🎐tively an undercut from him.
“I think it𝓀 was a fair decision to swap us back, at the end. We discussed a lot last night and this morning about how the race would look. We were free to race each other and to try to win the race, if we finished 1-2. That’s more or less what we did.
“A lot of really good planning and open discussions allo🐽ws us to have trust and respect for each other, and not ge♓t into situations.”
On the other side of the McLaren garage, Norris was understandably frustrated by the situation and the lost points to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in the championship.
Piꦗastri conceded Norris’ annoyance was “only natural”.
“In Lando’s position, I could understand. It’s only natural,” he added. “From my point of view, I did all the right things until the last pitstop. The only reason we pitted the⛦ cars in the way that we did was to cover off different people. It meant he undercut me.
“Of course, it’s never the easiest thing to work out. But we’re all respectful enoug🔯h to see the reasons why.”
It was Piastri’s first F1 victory, and McLaren’s f🅰irst 1-2 since Monza 2021.
Reflecting on his achievement, he added: “I got a good st🔯art. Just good enough that I could get my nose into Turn 1.
“It was strong racing but fair. That really set me up for the rest of the race. That’s what won it for me today. We did a lot of things right. For me, still𒁏 a lot of things to work on for the future.
“As a team we managed i🌜t pretty well. I’m very happy with my first win.”
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