{"id":126551,"date":"2025-09-07T23:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126551\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T23:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:56:09","slug":"mclaren-set-very-difficult-precedent-with-f1-italian-gp-swap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/126551\/","title":{"rendered":"McLaren set “very difficult” precedent with F1 Italian GP swap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mercedes<\/a> Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff reckons McLaren’s call to ask Oscar Piastri<\/a> to let Lando Norris<\/a> past during the Italian Grand Prix after a slow stop for Norris was a “very difficult precedent to undo”.<\/p>\n

As Norris and Piastri were on course to finish second and third behind dominant winner Max Verstappen<\/a>, McLaren<\/a> allowed Piastri to make his only pitstop before Norris to help defend his gap to fourth-placed Charles Leclerc<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A slow stop for Norris then caused the Briton to fall behind his team-mate and title rival, but because Piastri received pitstop priority against the usual order, McLaren demanded a puzzled\u00a0Australian let Norris past again.<\/p>\n

McLaren’s reasoning was that the decision was the reverse scenario of a similar team orders call at last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, when Piastri fell behind due to a powerful undercut for Norris, but according to Wolff its Monza call has now set a new precedent.<\/p>\n

“There is no right and there is no wrong, and I’m curious to see how that pans out,” Wolff said. “You set a precedent that is very difficult to undo.<\/p>\n

“What if the team does another mistake and it’s not a pitstop… do you switch them around? But then equally, because of a team mistake, making a driver that is trying to catch up lose the points is not fair either.<\/p>\n

“So, I think we are going to get our response of whether that was right today towards the end of the season when it heats up.”<\/p>\n

\"Lando <\/p>\n

Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren<\/p>\n

Photo by: Andy Hone\/ LAT Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sauber<\/a> team principal Jonathan Wheatley added: “They would have obviously talked about how they were going to go about racing, and I guess they had a conversation that if there was a team error they’d swapped positions.<\/p>\n

“They obviously learned a lot of hard lessons last year. I’ve been very impressed with how they managed the two drivers fighting in the championship this year, and I think they were ahead of it.<\/p>\n

“They weren’t having a discussion in the race, so it’s clearly something they talked about before.”<\/p>\n

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