Should Norris Have Been Selfish In Hungary?

The team made this much harder than it needed to be, again. No point blaming either of the drivers.

The race felt like a battle between drivers and race engineers

Why in the world would you sacrifice more points for lando to catch up to Max in the championship. Regardless of what team orders were supposed to be followed.

Piastris manager is Mark Multi21 Webber.......he would have been screaming in the background at McLaren and was likely on the phone to his old boss asking if he wants another driver if Max leaves....

I've been watching F1 since 1970 and appreciate the nuance and foresight required to not only build a team and a car, but to finance it. Unfortunately for me, the advent of team orders, particularly in the modern day evolution of the sport, has never sat well with me. In the golden years it was all about the skill of the drivers, the enterprise of the engineers and the reliability of their cars; the best man and machine won. Today however, it is impossible to not have team orders, purely based on the substantive fiscal demands that are needed to maintain a team and it's continuing participation and progress within the sport. Takes the edge off the spectacle for me. But that's just my opinion. Thanks for sharing.

here's the curve-ball though... earlier in the race they told Lando that 'he could race the Papaya car'. If Lando was thinking straight, he could have given the place back immediately, then, held back a couple of laps, then continued to put the pressure onto Oscar, enacting his own overtake later in the race and won. I'd have thought that this would have placed him in an even stronger position in the team than gapping him by 6 seconds would have ever have done.

Would Schumacher/ Vettel / Max have yielded ? Lando should have stuck with " tell him to catch me up ".

What happens in the future, if Oscar is in the position to give Lando more points in the future to win the world championship? There is a massive chance Oscar could easily give Lando more than 7 points in the last 12 races if it's clear that Lando could win the championship. If Lando didn't give this position back, then Oscar would NEVER give Lando points in the future if needed to win the championship

Marc Prestley weekend wrap was a bit more controlled and objective compared to Peter Windsor

Wonder if Oscar ‚Cool as a Cucumber‘ Piastri will be competing with Max soon-ish, his learning curve to manage tires is steep and he his faaaast

I can’t really see Toto Wolff putting up with Max’s attitude

Piastri should have gotten the first pit stop instead of Lando, so the team made a mistake, imo. If you want to become a champion you have to be a bit selfish and take everything you can, I think that Max would never do that. So the team fucked up.

Should Lando have let Oscar pass sooner could he have them challenges Oscar for the lead? Obviously wouldn't have had the advantage of fresh tyres, and team could have jump in and told them not to race each other. Hindsight. As it was Lando opened up a gap and tried to prove a point by opening the gap, perhaps hoping the team would change their mind.

Ultimately the team made a terrible error by pitting Lando first and allowing him to undercut Piastri. It was a bizarre call that exposed simple issues they really need to address. Then they guilt tripped Lando for their own error, which was quite frankly awful - however the alternative, was equally as bad to be honest. In the end probably it worked out better this way, but still how they can pit Lando first instead of Oscar when he isn't under any threat at all was peak levels of incompetence.

If Oscar had the "preferential" treatment for the two stops would Lando of got near Oscar?

Yes lando will regret it , he already does

What was Lewis thinking? How dare he attempt to turn right on a right hand bend. 😂

McLaren team bosses know how special Piastri is and how fast he is developing…. To me I honestly think McLaren will start showing preference towards Oscar sooner believing Piastri is a better bet of becoming WDC…. He has so much more mental maturity than Norris. Andreas Stella said yesterday that Oscar is the youngest member of McLaren but the most mature. Lando under pressure cracks too easily for my liking.

Other times Lando has been behind Oscar he has failed to be able to pass. Just because Lando he produced a couple of extra good laps doesn't mean that if the track position had prevailed that he would have been able to pass Oscar. If he was that much better why not let Oscar through and spend the next 10 laps catching and passing him. Andrea Stella claimed to have taken Nico Rosberg's advice, which was what you were talking about, the wishy washy way they presented it to Lando. Nico said they should have just ordered him to do it, unambiguously, and Andrea said "I will take that on board". Hooray for Mclaren though, either way.

The team weren’t necessarily wrong to pit Lando first, though Lewis was a bit too far to be a serious undercut risk. The first mistake was the team not making it clear to Lando that they were purposely helping him undercut Oscar (who was the leading driver at the time and would ordinarily be afforded the optimum strategy) and that they expect the drivers to switch positions on track. The mistake was compounded by Lando because he didn’t yield position quickly and allow himself time to re-pass Oscar on merit, which he might well have done. Then the team tried to correct the situation by making blatantly manipulative radio calls. In the end it was unfair to both drivers and tainted a 1-2 result.