McLaren will give Lando Norris priority over teammate Oscar Piastri in the Formula One championship battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen
priority over his teammate Oscar Piastri in the Formula One championship battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, the team principal, Andrea Stella, has confirmed.
The British driver Norris is second overall and 62 points behind the triple world champion Verstappen with eight rounds remaining, plus three sprint races, while the Australian Piastri is fourth and 106 off the lead. There are a maximum of 232 points still to be won in the drivers’ championship. are chasing both titles and could go top in the constructors’ standings at this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, with the team only eight points behind once-dominant Red Bull.Download the Guardian app from the iOS App Store on iPhone or the Google Play store on Android by searching for 'The Guardian'.In the Guardian app, tap the Menu button at the bottom right, then go to Settings , then Notifications.
“The team interests comes first and these are the situations that above all we need to fix because eventually, as a matter of fact, the way we entered the race in Monza left the door open this situation,” said Stella. The former Ferrari engineer said both his drivers had accepted the situation. “The conversations have been very collaborative,” he added. “Even when I said to Oscar: ‘Would you be available to give up a victory?’ He said: ‘It’s painful, but if it’s the right thing to do now, I will do it.’”
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