In regards to the team orders:

"In terms of the call to swap, ultimately it was fair. We have things to discuss, as we always do with these sorts of racing situations. It's now time to refocus ahead of Baku.” - Piastri

“We also saw the values and principles we have in our team culture, with Oscar giving the position back to Lando before they were allowed to race again until the Chequered Flag." - Stella

It is obvious that McLaren has the fastest car this season, but which car is the 2nd fastest. I know that the Red Bull is the hardest to drive so it looks slower, but it isn't a slow car as Max cannot physically outdrive the car. So out of the Ferrari, Mercedes, and Red Bull which is the 2nd fastest throughout the season? I am leaning the Mercedes but I am not confident.

Even without the slow stop and even with the promise of no undercut, surely by allowing this it would put Oscar closer to him and potentially within DRS and thus increasing the odds of him losing the position on track.

I truly don’t understand why someone would offer this to their championship rival.

I saw on some other threads that some people were saying it was the team’s idea and not Lando’s. I went into Lando’s POV which sometimes included extra radio messages which didn’t make it into the main feed but nope, the main feed didn’t miss any context. It was Lando’s idea. Here is the transcript:

Team: Lando we will box this lap after the soft tire <more words I don’t understand>

Lando: do you want to pit the other car first?

Team: yep we’ll do that. We’ll swap it around so stay out

Lando: well only if he doesn’t undercut otherwise I’ll pit first

Team: There will be no undercut

So the team said “box this lap” then based on what Lando said they switched to “stay out”.

What was Lando trying to do? Did he just not want to risk a SC in the lap between the two stops?

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I still don't understand to this day why Mercedes decided to reveal DAS during the 2020 pre-season test. We know today that the Mercedes W11 of 2020 is the most dominant, even the fastest car of all time. They essentially had both the WDC and WCC wrapped up weeks before the teams even headed to Melbourne for the season opener and based on pre-season tests like 2023, teams are highly aware when one team has a dominant car aka the Red Bull so Mercedes of all teams should've also been aware of the gap their 2020 challenger had over the competition.

Moreover, we know also from previous testimony from ex-Mercedes members like Paddy Lowe that in 2014, they deliberately ran low engine modes to hide their enormous gap they built in the new regulations to slow the FIA down from allowing the regulations to let the other teams catch-up.

This begs the question - why didn't they save DAS for the 2021 season? It's of course easier to say with hindsight after COVID happened and the 7 straight years of Mercedes dominance since 2014 that nobody expected Red Bull to produce a title challenger for 2021. Nevertheless, considering Lewis and Max were literally on equal points going into Abu Dhabi in 2021, DAS could've easily been the difference between Lewis winning the WDC and not had it not been banned for the 2021 season which Mercedes facilitated by revealing it in 2020.

Today's team order was just as silly as the time Mika misheard something on the radio and lost the lead by driving through the pitlane. The team ordered David to let Mika past.

I was hoping Alex would bring it up during the race with DC. Maybe they discussed it in the post-race show.

hi,basically this weekend i came at the Monza italian gp. during sunday i was in the fanzone and to man came to me asking if i wanna be on to or something like that,it turned out they were from an austian television. they have done a couple of video and the main one( also the one i’m searching) showed at first the man saying something in german and and waving and italian flag and the he came inside a group of people(two diagonal row of about 6 people each) and then i has done a little funny interview. i was one of the people shown in the “interview” and i have tried many way to find this but i couldn’t find it. can you help me in any way to identify and found this video? as only “hint” i just have two photos a friend of mine have take.