McLaren, Andrea Stella makes mea culpa

McLaren, Andrea Stella makes mea culpa

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has è regretted letting Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri run free at Monza, with the result that Piastri overtook Norris at the Variante della Roggia, taking away invaluable points from him in the race for the world drivers’ title. Here are the words, on the eve of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, of Stella, who thus seems inclined, should it be necessary, to give team orders in favor of Norris.

“The ‘Papaya rules’ have to do with the obligation for our drivers to race without taking risks and with mutual respect, with no contact between our two cars,” Stella said in an interview with BBC Sports reported by formulapassion.co.uk. È a quick way to remind the guys not to overdo it when they fight each other. Overall the concept è that we are incredibly determined to win, but we also want to do it the right way. From now we will shift our support more to Lando, but we want to do it without unduly compromising our principles. And our principles say that the team’s interest comes first. Sportsmanship è for us è is an important value and we want to make sure we are fair to both of our drivers”.

“We don’t want to see any more situations where we come into corners in first and second position and come out first and third. È it was a detriment to the team and we have to resolve situations like that becauseé è it was the way we approached the race that left the door open foré something like that to occur”.

“After Monza we gave ourselves three goals. First, we have to make sure that nothing that happens on the track between the drivers causes harm to the team, then as a second point we have to have both committed to help win both championships. And finally, what we don’t want è to win irresponsibly. We go to Baku following these three principles, we will see if after the GP it will be the case to further change the’approach”.