Team orders are part of F1, but rarely do they unfold as dramatically, and for as long, as McLaren's memorable one-two at the Hungarian GP on Sunday.
was the precursor to a remarkable finish at Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix.
The request to hand victory to Piastri should never have had to happen. McLaren caused the situation by its timing of Norris' final pit stop, two laps earlier than the leading Piastri. Norris had lost the race to his teammate at the start; after the pair secured McLaren's first front-row lockout since 2012, it was Piastri who won the race down to Turn 1. Norris then wasted a couple of laps waiting forand Verstappen behind in third and fourth, respectively.
When the laps for Norris"to do the right thing" had been ticking away, the absence of a more senior intervention on Norris' radio was surprising. All of the radio messages broadcast were from Joseph; team boss Andrea Stella, who worked as race engineer forat Ferrari and McLaren, could empathise with the situation Joseph found himself on the pit wall as he pleaded with Norris at the end of the race.
Whether Norris always knew he was going to give the position back, as he later claimed, will be debated. He said after the race that he had initially planned to move over at the final corner and let Piastri through then. Piastri's victory already felt slightly less-than because Norris had made such a show about the team orders, but passing through the final corner would have been a really insulting way to record such a milestone career moment.
Norris looked awkward in parc ferme as he congratulated the mechanics lined along the fence that separates drivers from their race team. In the cool-down room between parc ferme and the podium ceremony, he then snapped at Hamilton, who had said"Jeez, you guys are fast." Norris quickly shot back that Hamilton himself used to have a fast car"seven years ago.
Oscar Piastri, in car, eventually took his maiden win in F1 after Lando Norris followed team orders and let his fellow McLaren past in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix. "The fact I was in that position was incorrect. I think that was a mistake from us as a team. I shouldn't have been in that position, I think it was a strategic way to run our race. It gave me hope and gave me that position of, 'Oh I'm here now,' but I shouldn't have been there in the first place.
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