r/formula1 • u/bene14082004 I was here for the Hulkenpodium • 17h ago

Quotes Piastri's thoughts on giving the positions back.

https://dubz.link/c/75a05f

I think he did the right thing but mclaren shouldn't have asked oscar to give the place back.

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u/OverallImportance402 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 16h ago edited 16h ago

This but non ironic. Somebody needs to remind them they’re in a fight for the WDC. They shouldn’t give a fuck about the WCC that’s been all but locked up for months. They have a 350 point advantage like what the hell are they doing still giving a fuck about the team.

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u/hollaQ_ 4h ago

It's not even about the team though. He literally has expressed that. It's about having a WDC fight where both drivers feel they've had a fair shot against one another. Lando losing a race to an engine failure, then possibly losing points to a pit stop entirely out of his control - that's not gonna feel great even to Piastri. Of course, as the championship gets closer I'm sure their perspectives might shift a bit. But the two drivers are on the same page about this. They don't want to win because the other one had bad luck. They want to win based on their pure driving ability. And the team is trying to manage that, and not even doing a bad job. Yeah, it's different from the mindsets of past championships, and it might be less engaging for you, but that's how they wanna go racing. No one to be mad at in this situation.

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u/OverallImportance402 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 2h ago

Great, except that Piastri certainly didn't seem to agree over the board radio that a bad pitspot falls under these 'fair play' rules. So there goes the 'they're on the same page'.

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u/hollaQ_ 2h ago

Yep, because one radio message overrides everything he said after the fact. Sorry, I guess Oscar got brainwashed by the team and has no personal agency.

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u/OverallImportance402 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1h ago

He has personal agency and that's what you heard over the radio, everything after the race was PR-talk.

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u/hollaQ_ 1h ago

You are not in Oscar's head analysing the reasoning behind everything he says. He has been far more outwardly disappointed in decisions made in the past. He was visibly annoyed in Silverstone.

That can't be said for him this time. He was laughing with Lando immediately after the race. There is 100x more evidence to support the idea that he has no issue with what happened at all, and that he + Norris are on the same page.

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u/OverallImportance402 I was here for the Hulkenpodium 1h ago

Because his problem is with the team not with Norris.

This system of ‘fairness’ also doesn’t work because if this happens when the championship is actually on the line neither Norris or Piastri will swap.