\u201cYeah, I mean, that wasn\u2019t very team like,\u201d Piastri quipped on lap two.<\/p>\n
A lap later he asked: \u201cSo, are we cool with Lando just barging me out the way or? What\u2019s the go there?\u201d<\/p>\n
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He was told the team would investigate further and make a decision post-race.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not fair, I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s not fair,\u201d Piastri replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he has to avoid another car by crashing into his teammate, that\u2019s a pretty s**t job of avoiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Sky Sports commentary team understood why Piastri was upset but did not think McLaren needed to swap the positions of their drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was punchy, opportunistic, aggressive – but this is a motor race. The ground rules have just been reset,\u201d Martin Brundle said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOscar will be going, \u2018OK, so that\u2019s it, then? That\u2019s how we\u2019re going racing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Piastri began the Singapore Grand Prix leading the world championship by 25 points from Norris, and by 69 points from Verstappen, with seven races and three sprints remaining.<\/p>\n
Piastri was left fuming at McLaren who watched the incident but decided not to act during the race.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
George Russell started on pole and quickly pulled away in his Mercedes.<\/p>\n
Verstappen pitted early and used the clean air, plus Lewis Hamilton pitting at the perfect time, to consolidate his lead for second place, with McLaren having to hope for a tyre offset later in the race.<\/p>\n
McLaren asked Norris whether he would allow Piastri to pit first, to cover off Charles Leclerc who had already pitted, as he was asked at the Italian Grand Prix (when McLaren told Piastri to let Norris through due to a slow pit stop).<\/p>\n
This time Norris was not willing to play the team game, replying: \u201cYep. Ah, no. I will not.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an unfortunate repeat of Monza, the second McLaren to stop had a problem, though Piastri\u2019s five-second stop did not cost him a position. He came out in fourth but well behind Norris.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth consecutive race weekend in which the McLaren engineers bungled a pit stop. They were also slow at the Dutch and Azerbajian Grand Prix, both times for Norris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri has been left fuming after his teammate and world title rival Lando Norris crashed into him…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-191580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191580","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=191580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}