Oscar Piastri says he would have “no regrets” if he were to lose the F1 drivers’ title to Lando Norris as a result of his decision to follow team orders in the Italian Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With both McLarens opting to run long and fit the soft tyres at Monza, Piastri, from second, was pitted first to cover against Charles Leclerc behind, which was achieved.<\/p>\n
However, when Norris stopped next time around, he suffered a slow stop on the front-left, and dropped behind the Australian as long-time leader Max Verstappen reassumed his lead to run ahead of Piastri and Norris.<\/p>\n
Had the cars finished in this order, Piastri would have earned 18 points to Norris’s 15, extending his points lead to 37 over his team-mate, but following a McLaren request, Piastri ceded position to Norris.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This meant the gap was actually trimmed to 31 with a six-point swing in Norris’s favour, with the title being decided by six points or fewer 26 times in the 75 seasons since the world championship was formed in 1950.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The last was Nico Rosberg beating Lewis Hamilton by five points in 2016, but Piastri has no doubts he made the right decision.<\/p>\n
“I wouldn’t regret it, no,” Piastri told media, including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It was a fair decision. Lando was ahead the whole race, and it wasn’t through any fault of his own [that he dropped behind].\u00a0<\/p>\n
“For me, that’s fine. Ultimately, whoever wins the championship wants to have won it as much as they can through their own performances and things they can control; this wasn’t one of those things.<\/p>\n
“Lando qualified ahead, was ahead the whole race, and lost that spot through no fault of his own. I said what I had to say on the radio.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“And once I got the second request, then I’m not going to go against the team.<\/p>\n
“There are a lot of people to protect and a culture to protect outside of just Lando and me, and ultimately, that’s a very important thing going forward.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri says he would have “no regrets” if he were to lose the F1 drivers’ title to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-141903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141903","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=141903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}