Oscar Piastri reflects on his maiden F1 victory and opens up on McLaren's pre-race morning meetings.
Piastri took the lead on the opening lap at the Hungaroring ahead of McLaren teammateHowever, things were made complicated for the Woking outfit after they stopped Norris first for the second round of stops.
Norris’ race engineer, Will Joseph, made reference to the Sunday morning meetings when attempting to get his driver to listen to the instructions.“I had a lot of trust in the team and Lando,” he said. “Lando was fast at the end, that was clear. But the strategy that we went onto meant it was effectively an undercut from him.
“A lot of really good planning and open discussions allows us to have trust and respect for each other, and not get into situations.”On the other side of the McLaren garage, Norris was understandably frustrated by the situation and the lost points to“In Lando’s position, I could understand. It’s only natural,” he added. “From my point of view, I did all the right things until the last pitstop. The only reason we pitted the cars in the way that we did was to cover off different people.
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