Last week saw the culmination of this start to the season McLaren. If the double a Monza since 2021 had been the result of chance (remember the Verstappen-Hamilton accident), in Hungary you saw a domain of the Woking stable. However, the English team's Sunday in Hungary might have been better without the team order mix-up that was almost about to happen. cost Oscar Piastri the victory: The architect of the almost failed first position at the Hungaroring is Lando Norris.
Norris on the Hungarian GP: “I'm not proud of my behavior, I overshadowed Oscar”
With a pit call in his favor, the Englishman managed to stay ahead of his teammate and create a gap 6 seconds. After the wall's endless requests to slow down, Lando it almost stops on the straight and blatantly lets Piastri pass. Arriving in Belgium, however, Norris appears to have done so an examination of conscience. In his words, in fact, if the race were run again would have a different attitude: “I'm sure that that race could have been managed differently and better, both from the team's point of view and from mine. I managed to overshadow Piastri's first F1 win and also our one-two. Almost no one talked about it because everyone was focused on what I did. As said, we discussed what happened, we learned from our mistakes and we hope that next time it will be better.".
Norris admits: 'It was a bit stupid not to let it pass'
Lando then continued on the Piastri topic, with also a final mention of the Belgian weekend: “Meditating on what I have done today I would let Oscar pass immediately. I was quite stupid, because then I could have competed with him and maybe even passed him. The conditions were there to do it, but then I saw that I had a good pace. Regardless, I reiterate that on my part it was a bit stupid not to let it pass for different reasons. Meanwhile I created even more problems for the team, and moreover I still would have had a chance to win the race. Regarding Spa and our competitiveness, I have no idea. If we look at last weekend I can say that for the first time we were the best team on the grid. But everything else is really uncertain.".
ARTICLE BY FRANCESCO ORLANDO
Source statements: FormulaPassion
