Christian Horner: McLaren made ‘life complicated for themselves’ with team orders saga

"They didn’t need to make life that complicated for themselves, they wer🍸e in a pretty comfortablඣe situation..."

Christian Horner (GBR) Red Bull Racing Team Principal. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11, Austrian Grand Prix,
Christian Horner (GBR) Red Bull Racing Team Principal. Formula 1 World Championship, Rd 11,…

Christian Horner was left confused by McLaren’s decision to pit 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris before Oscar Piastri - a decision which led to the team orders saga at the end of the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix.

McLaren dominated the race at the Hungaroring with Piastri runnin🌺g ahead of Norris.

For🐈 the second round of pit stops, McLaren opted to pit Norris first to cover off Lewis Hamilton.

Two laps later, Piastri came🍒 in, surrendering t🃏rack position to his teammate.

While 🧔McLaren assꦏured him Norris would give the place back, it took until the closing number of laps before the British driver to back off.

McLaren repeated a number of messages over tea🌜m radio, urging Norrꦺis to slow down before he eventually gave Piastri the race lead.

Speaking after the race in Hungary, where 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:mahbx.com are in th𝄹e paddock, Horner gave his view on the team orders de🌟bacle at McLaren.

“They didn’t need to make life th𒉰at complicated for themselves, they were in a pretty comfortable situation, they chose to pit Lando two laps earlier, which usual practice is, to pit the lead car first, and then they gave themselves a lot of work to do to reset that at the back end of th▨e race,” he said.

“So yeah, that’s obviously theꦅir business but they perhaps didn’t💛 need to create that problem.”

He added: “The drivers’ 🅠interest versus the team’s interest, there’s 🐼always a conflict.”

(L to R): Second placed Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren celebrates with team mate and race winner Oscar Piastri (AUS) McLaren in
(L to R): Second placed Lando Norris (GBR) McLaren celebrates with team mate and race winner…

In a separate interview with🙈 Sky, Ted Kravitz referenced ‘Multi 21’ - Red Bull’s famous team orders scandal where Sebastian Vettel refused to listen and overtook teammate Mark Webber.

Kravitz said to Horner: “Nobody mentioned mul𒐪ti-21 today. That was what was going on wasn’t it. Lando was giving it ago. Trying to show he was like Seb… not going to give away.”

Horn👍er replied: “It’s an awkward position. I didn’t understand why they didn’t give Oscar the first pit stop so they put themselves into that position. It was something they dis🀅cussed pre-race and Lando did what was asked of him.”

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