Formula 1: Lando Norris wasn't too pleased with Oscar Piastri's risky overtake on Lap 1 of the Italian Grand Prix.
Lando takes aim at Piastri's overtake | 03:19No team can ever be happy to turn a front-row lockout into a two-three finish , but McLaren has particular reason to feel disappointed that victory slipped through its fingers in Monza at the weekend.
“I thought it was a good move,” he argued. “I broke late and left plenty of space and we got through unscathed. With Verstappen gaining only one place in the race and Pérez remaining where he started, the points swing was still reasonable. McLaren is now just eight points adrift of the teams title, while Norris reduced his deficit to 62 points.
It sounds simple enough, and Piastri certainly appeared to abide by the code. Undoubtedly he was racing hard, but at no point was contact made. The team chose not to designate Norris as the number one, hoping — perhaps assuming — instead that the Briton would go out and win the position for himself. Taking pole was a great start; if he could cover Piastri in the opening stint on Sunday, the race would naturally unfold to his benefit, and McLaren would be free to prioritise him ahead of his teammate as a matter of course.
That boils down to finishing first to Verstappen in second in every race and sprint with at least three points for fastest laps. Victory hasn’t always been possible when Norris has started from pole, and not all those failures to convert have been solely his fault, but just this year alone that streak has cost him three wins.
McLaren wants Norris to make the call easy to make with form that identified him as the undeniable team leader. So far he’s failed to do that.Norris’s fumbles are only half of the equation. The other half is Piastri’s growing power inside the team.Races in which Norris had the advantage Races Piastri had the advantage : Great Britain.
In Emilia-Romagna a team mistake in qualifying had Piastri slapped with a grid penalty for impeding after qualifying second. Norris inherited the position and finished there, while Piastri finished fourth. Norris’s odds were long when Red Bull Racing still looked like comfortably the second-best car. In Italy it was a distant fourth fastest behind McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes.
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