{"id":127227,"date":"2025-09-08T07:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127227\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:01:08","slug":"italian-grand-prix-oscar-piastri-reaction-to-mclaren-team-order-lando-norris-what-happened-video-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/127227\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Grand Prix; Oscar Piastri reaction to McLaren team order, Lando Norris, what happened, video, press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri has refused to criticise McLaren\u2019s decision to swap driver places at the Italian Grand Prix<\/a>, a dramatic team orders call that reduced his lead in the F1 title race.<\/p>\n

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Lando Norris\u2019 second place finish cut McLaren teammate Piastri\u2019s (third) lead at the top of the drivers\u2019 standings to 31 points but he almost ended up falling further behind after a disastrous pit stop in the final few laps looked like costing him second place.<\/p>\n

Briton Norris, who was forced out of the race at Zandvoort with a late mechanical problem, was in second when after entering the box he was kept too long due to a fault with a wheel gun, allowing Piastri to overtake.<\/p>\n

With Max Verstappen flying up the road and heading to certain victory, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella then ordered a position swap which he told reporters was within \u201cthe racing values that we have in mind\u201d.<\/p>\n

The decision surprised Verstappen who commented on team radio: \u201cHa! Just because he had a slow stop?!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite Piastri\u2019s initially protestation<\/a>, after the race he appeared happy to toe the team line that justice had been done.<\/p>\n

But he also alluded to an interesting non-racing justification.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re in opposite teams, then yes, it\u2019s very obvious that you just take the luck that you get,\u201d he told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut when you\u2019re in the same team, it\u2019s the same pit crew, same mechanics \u2014 there\u2019s a lot at stake not just for us [the drivers] but for the whole team.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think today the decision to swap back was fair. Lando was ahead of me the whole race. I don\u2019t have any issues with that. But we will definitely discuss it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norris, meanwhile, said the incident was \u201cout of his control\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey don\u2019t want to be the reason to upset one driver or another,\u201d Norris said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf I come flat out into my box and I hit all my mechanics out of the way, I don\u2019t expect to get the position back, but today was out of my control.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Briton also argued that it was wrong to suggest he\u2019d ultimately won from the situation.<\/p>\n

While the team order had handed him second place, he pointed out that the team\u2019s mistake had still obliterated what had been a comfortable buffer between him and Piastri, allowing the Australian to race him to the flag.<\/p>\n

Chaos as Norris forced off by Verstappen | 00:28<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should things get defined like that?\u201d he told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe were free to race after \u2014 in fact he gained from the whole situation \u2014 he had DRS, he could fight against me, so I still lost out through it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe same thing would\u2019ve happened if it was vice versa. If I was behind before and he had the worse pit stop and ended up behind, I\u2019d have to let him through.<\/p>\n

\u201cI earnt my right to be ahead, to have that fairness. None of us wants it to happen like this. I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t choose for these things to happen. I don\u2019t want to have to let him past or have to get let past.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t choose these things, but we have to do what we think is correct as a team, do things the fair way. That\u2019s how we want to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a team we don\u2019t care what others say, what other opinions there are about it. We do it the way want to, the way we think is correct, and that\u2019s what we need to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has refused to criticise McLaren\u2019s decision to swap driver places at the Italian Grand Prix, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[13273,64,63,89004,89003,89005,88555,1737,806,805,803,804,88559,36780,2643,85,9210,88570,89002,31283,13773,22294],"class_list":["post-127227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-andrea-stella","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-classy-response","tag-dramatic-team","tag-driver-places","tag-interesting-non-racing-justification","tag-lando-norris","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-pit-crew","tag-position-swap","tag-sky-sports","tag-sports","tag-staff-writers","tag-team-line","tag-team-order","tag-team-orders","tag-team-principal","tag-title-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}