Former F1 driver Timo Glock has delivered a withering takedown of McLaren for how it has handled the aftermath of Lando Norris making contact with Oscar Piastri at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
The German heavily criticised the decision to publicly share that Norris is subject to repercussions for the incident with his team-mate, labelling it “complete nonsense”, whilst arguing the Woking-based squad should have kept the matter strictly internal.<\/p>\n
Neither the British driver nor Piastri would confirm what the ramifications would be, but McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has since announced they will be of a “sporting” nature, but also that they will likely go unnoticed on track.<\/p>\n
At the United States Grand Prix, team principal Andrea Stella also addressed the “consequences” Norris will face, which caught the ire of Glock.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Sky Sports Germany, the former Jordan, Toyota, Virgin and Marussia driver said: “[I have] no idea what those statements are supposed to mean.<\/p>\n
“In my opinion: either you clearly say what’s going on, or you say nothing at all.<\/p>\n
“If you have these so-called ‘papaya rules’, then keep them to yourself. But this whole ‘Yeah, there was something’ and ‘We did something there’… that’s complete nonsense!”<\/p>\n
Glock did not hold back in his scathing assessment of the situation at McLaren despite Norris taking the sanctions in his stride.<\/p>\n
The nine-time grand prix winner has said it is “fair” that he be held “accountable” for the collision at the Marina Bay Street Circuit.<\/p>\n
“Apparently, they’ve cut Lando’s pocket money,” Glock jokingly added before continuing to vent his disapproval with McLaren’s approach.<\/p>\n
“[I have] no clue what this little public drama is all about. Either I keep my mouth shut \u2013 or I make myself vulnerable. Everyone else is just laughing.<\/p>\n
“Max Verstappen would love it and say, ‘You lot keep arguing \u2013 I\u2019ll be right there when you crash into each other again.'”<\/p>\n
Glock, who viewed the clash on the opening lap in Singapore as a racing incident, took umbrage with there being an investigation at all.<\/p>\n
“He’s fighting for the world championship,” the 43-year-old said of Norris, who is 14 points behind Piastri in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n
“So what \u2013 should he wave him through? This whole ‘we all love each other’ thing and ‘we\u2019ll discuss it in a group therapy circle’… No idea \u2013 I have to be honest and say, I\u2019m starting to have doubts.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former F1 driver Timo Glock has delivered a withering takedown of McLaren for how it has handled the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-233601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233601","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=233601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}