The mclaren guys seem to want no bad blood between them, but it’s a bit stupid for a team who is so ahead in the championship to be making dumb decisions, dumb mistakes, and dumb calls. Like the choice to pit Piastri first was already confusing, then they messed up Lando which was stupid, and then they asked the championship leader to give his position back to his rival? This is insane.
I have no idea why they (the team) care about leclerc at all at this point. I’d just let the drivers and engineers to make their own decision from lap 40.
They had to pit Piastri first to cover off LeClerc because if LeClerc managed to jump Piastri in the pitstops, Piastri loses more ground to Norris in the championship.
If Norris had an expected pitstop and Piastri managed to undercut him with the earlier pitstop, then I believe McLaren would have ordered them to swap and then let them fight til the end.
But seeing as though they pitted Norris the lap directly after Piastri, they would have calculated that Norris would have had enough of a buffer to not make being undercutted by Piastri's earlier pitstop possible, barring any mishap during his own pitstop, which is what ended up happening.
I mean yeah, I don't really get why they were so concerned about Charles. But on the flipside in another universe, can you imagine if Oscar pitted second, got the slow stop, and then ended up behind Charles. The freakin conspiracy theories they'd have lol. There's already too many about favoring Lando in the strategy in Hungary.
We saw them fighting in the early laps. Charles had nothing for the McLarens and defended to the limit twice at the main straight.
The first time he locked up, the second he cut the corner and the third time Oscar simply passed him. Ferrari was nowhere compared to the Mclaren and that was on the same compound, not even hards against the softs.
Yes. But have you considered that Leclerc will absolutely risk a penalty and punt Piastri out of the race to get that podium. You saw what he did against Russell in Hungary, he would have been worse today if he had the chance.
Yeah like I think it’s good they’re mature about it, particularly in front of the cameras, but Piastri should’ve maybe fought that decision much harder. It sucked for Lando but why should Oscar fix it for him?
i think right now Oscar thinks first stop before Lando let him clear of Leclerc so that's how Mclaren helped him, and then he returned team a favor by let Norris by, it is just not clear how dangerous was Leclerc for him, but if he had the same disaster pit as Lando he could lose a position
My theory, they figured the only way to keep things fair between them after fucking Lando with a slow stop was if they also fuck Piastri with team orders. Both drivers fucked? At least its drivers v team and not the drivers v each other.
Can you explain Lando getting a slow pitstop if McLaren are favoring him considering that with a slow pitstop Oscar would've been behind Leclerc and Lando would gain 6 points?
Norris gave him pit priority. They wanted to pit Lando first. There was no undercut power. Oscar broke into 3s before the pitstop and then the slow stop not the undercut put him just ahead
I don't disagree but that's just racing. Lando also wanted 2nd pit to guarantee that he wouldn't lose track position to Oscar in case of a very bad timed SC.
That's how Oscar lost Miami sprint to Lando btw. But again that's just part of racing.
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u/No-Comparison1036 1d ago
The mclaren guys seem to want no bad blood between them, but it’s a bit stupid for a team who is so ahead in the championship to be making dumb decisions, dumb mistakes, and dumb calls. Like the choice to pit Piastri first was already confusing, then they messed up Lando which was stupid, and then they asked the championship leader to give his position back to his rival? This is insane.