Piastri insisted it was \u201cnot fair\u201d<\/a> and not in line with the team’s approach this year.<\/p>\nStella stated the open approach from Piastri to say what is on his mind is what it is seeking from its drivers.<\/p>\n
“Obviously, Oscar made some statements while he was in the car, but that’s the kind of character that we want to have from our drivers,\u201d Stella told media including RacingNews365.<\/p>\n
“They have to make their position very clear, that’s what we ask them.<\/p>\n
“At the same time, we have to put things in perspective \u2013 the perspective of a driver that is in a Formula 1 car with the intensity of it being the first lap, and the perspective that obviously just saw Lando moving onto him, but we know that Lando in reality had a contact with Verstappen and oversteered into Oscar.\u201d<\/p>\n
The incident was not the first time this year the duo have come to blows, with a late-race incident in Canada resulting in Norris’ elimination from the race.<\/p>\n
Stella outlined the incident in Singapore will only serve to unite the McLaren team further, rather than drive a wedge within the squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first-lap situation is one of those that can happen with this close racing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe will review the situation together with our drivers, we will have the good conversations like we had, for instance, after Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis review gave us the opportunity after Canada to come back, we said at the time, even more united and stronger as a team.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will see if there’s any learning and anything that we need to fine-tune in terms of our approach, but this will just lead to some good conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has defended Oscar Piastri after the Australian took issue with the squad’s management…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-200933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200933","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=200933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}