It later emerged that the mechanic had ignored instructions from the marshals and was tampering <\/a>with the marker McLaren had left Norris<\/a> on the pit wall after the cars had pulled away for the formation lap.<\/p>\n Max Verstappen<\/a> would go on to dominate the United States Grand Prix ahead of Norris to cut championship leader Oscar Piastri\u2019<\/a>s advantage in the title race to 40 points with five weekends remaining.<\/p>\n Former F1 driver Karun Chandhok described Red Bull\u2019s behaviour as \u201cgamesmanship\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s classic Dick Dastardly stuff. I mean what happens next, do you unplug their wheel gun when they are not looking?\u201d Chandhok joked on the Sky Sports F1 Show.<\/p>\n “It’s actually something that’s been quite common for many years. I mean, I remember my race engineer, when I first came to the UK in 2002, my race engineer used to do that, put tape on the wall. Ironically he now works for the FIA.<\/p>\n “People have done it for many years; this is not a new trick.\u201d<\/p>\n Norris arrives on the Austin grid<\/p>\n Red Bull told to ‘grow up’\u00a0<\/p>\n It is understood that it was not the first instance where Red Bull have attempted to remove tape markers from the pit wall put down by rival teams this season.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cApparently this has been a bit of a game going on all year. Once Red Bull found out McLaren were doing this, they\u2019ve been taking the tape off at other races,\u201d Chandhok added.<\/p>\n \u201cThen McLaren found a stronger, stickier tape. This is all rumour and conjecture that I\u2019ve heard from other people, so I can\u2019t confirm any of this.<\/p>\n “It’s a bit of gamesmanship. When Lando comes [back onto the grid], pulls around and he’s looking for that tape. There’s a lot going on, on the formation lap. There’s a lot going through the driver’s mind. Lando was saying himself, his heart rate’s up, it’s an intense lap.<\/p>\n “And you come there, you’re looking for your marker, it’s not there. Does it slightly put him off? That’s what they’re trying to do. It’s a bit of gamesmanship, but it’s a bit naughty.\u201d<\/p>\n Sky Sports F1 commentator David Croft was unimpressed, telling Red Bull to \u201cgrow up\u201d.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n “It’s like in football, where you give away a foul and then you go and kick the ball away. It’s like, just don\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cJust grow up! It really annoys me this sort of gamesmanship.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Bull have been accused of \u201cgamesmanship\u201d after a team member attempted to remove tape guiding McLaren\u2019s Lando…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,825,913,946,85],"class_list":["post-232233","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-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232233","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=232233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Norris](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/xpb_1379414_hires.jpg\")
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