Lando Norris sounded annoyed over the team radio during the sprint race when he sat behind his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri. The Australian kept the door closed at turn one and stayed ahead.
Given the World Championship standings, Norris needs to score as many points as possible to bridge a 47-point gap, and time is running out. With Verstappen behind in the sprint race, Norris senses a good chance to chip away at the gap, but he has his teammate ahead of him. Piastri is leading the sprint.
Piastri hinted that he would be open to giving up the lead to help his teammate out, but nothing happened in the early part of the race. Norris seemed to think the plan was a bit different. "I'm not sure what I'm doing here, mate. I thought we spoke about this," Norris told his race engineer, Will Joseph. He replied: "Keep doing what you're doing."
Later in the race, Piastri was told to give Norris DRS to help the British driver keep Charles Leclerc in his mirrors. Because of this threat from Leclerc, McLaren drivers were told to hold positions until the last lap. Follow the liveblog here.
Maybe Lando could try racing a bit faster and try to win the WDC on his own merit??
I used to like Lando but of late he is beginning to be a real whinger.
Oscar should have easily got another win in his F1 career records but willingly gave up that statistics in the record books to let Lando through.
For only one miserable point, there really wasn't any need for the team to have asked him to give up a win .
Well Lando when you were asked to give position back the last time and they had to beg you before you eventually gave that position back and also can't expect every driver to just roll over when you expect it not like Bottas did.
Haha, dude is mad that Piastri doesn't give his position to him, while Leclerc is straight behind Norris and it's risky to make a swap like that.
Same time we all remember hungary, where he refused to give position back to Piastri for long period of time. Hopefully it's pressure that makes Norris act this way and he really isn't like that.
Lando???this not what we agreed on and he keep make mistake if i was oscar id not let lando win
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