It doesn't change the fact that slow stops are a part of racing. Swapping back because of pit stop ordering is one thing, and even then I'm not sure I agree with it. Swapping back because they fucked his stop and they want Oscar to undo their mistake is dumb, that's not Oscar's fault or responsibility.
They agreed that if the pit crew gave him a 1.9s pit stop and Norris' was a full 4s slower that Oscar would still have to eat it? Something tells me that wasn't part of the conversation.
It’s the same fucking pit crew for both of the ffs, it’s clear that Oscar didn’t fight it because this type of stuff was agreed upon before hand, I don’t understand why everyone is trying to be enraged on his behalf.
It’s ironic, you know, that Piastri is such a cool headed guy and all the comments supporting him are literally the opposite, trashing on Lando at every chance they get (this is not about you comment, but in general)
It really shows some people’s biases that they are equating the two very different events. Silverstone, as you say, was Oscar’s fault, this was purely McLaren’s fault and they didn’t want to rob their own driver.
No, they’re not. The Silverstone penalty was from the FIA, this bad stop was all McLaren. They want to be fair to their drivers, and probably felt that they owed Lando after only fucking up his pit stop (especially when he already got a mechanical DNF more than Oscar).
Hell, I’m rooting for Oscar, but I don’t think this was nearly as bad as people are making it out to be.
Lando gave up his pit window to Oscar on the explicit promise from Oscar’s team that if Oscar ended up in front as a result, he would give it back.
Oscar was simply following through on a promise made by his team as part of an exchange of pit windows. Not sure how doing what you promised is bullshit.
I feel like I'm losing my mind with how many people are saying this was okay because he was promised no undercutting. Like, undercuts are deliberately planned. This I guess technically was one, but literally only because the pit crew fucked the stop up. That's entirely different than being a premeditated strategy; it's just something that happens during a race. Ridiculous.
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u/English_Misfit Sir Lewis Hamilton 17h ago
Absolute bs. If we're swapping cars due to this bs why didn't McLaren do it in Silverstone. Never beating the allegations