Untelevised team radio footage from the Italian Grand Prix has uncovered the moment Carlos Sainz was overruled by the Williams pit wall during a disagreement over team orders.<\/p>\n
The Italian Grand Prix was defined by team orders with McLaren\u2019s call for Oscar Piastri to swap position with teammate Lando Norris proving the biggest talking point of the race.<\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz overruled by Williams in untelevised team radio messages<\/p>\n
That came after Sainz and his Williams team were involved in a disagreement over team orders earlier in the race at Monza.<\/p>\n
Sainz and teammate Alex Albon were running eighth and ninth respectively in the early stages when the former began to struggle on medium tyres.<\/p>\n
With Albon on hards, Williams asked Sainz to swap places with his teammate shortly after the Spaniard made a mistake and cut across the run-off area at the second chicane.<\/p>\n
Analysis: Italian Grand Prix<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udc49\u00a0Italian GP conclusions: McLaren team orders, Norris and Piastri puppets, Verstappen\u2019s little victories<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49\u00a0The eye-opening data behind Max Verstappen\u2019s dominant Italian GP win<\/a><\/p>\n Williams\u2019 request was initially met with resistance by Sainz, who pleaded with his race engineer Gaetan Jego to pit him at the end of Lap 24 to prevent him from losing race time by easing his pace to carry out the swap.<\/p>\n The full exchange, only a snippet of which was aired during the global coverage of the Italian Grand Prix, went as follows:<\/p>\n Jego: \u201cSo, instruction: Let Alex through into Turn 4. Keep the racing line and stay in his DRS.\u201d<\/p>\n Sainz: \u201cYeah, but why don\u2019t we box in that case? Box me at the end of this lap.\u201d<\/p>\n Sainz: \u201cBox me. And then I don\u2019t have to lose the race time.\u201d<\/p>\n Jego: \u201cOK, so instruction: Lift into Turn 4, lift into Turn 4. You\u2019re still making progress compared to the cars [behind]. We want to extend. So into Turn 4, keep the racing line. Instruction this lap, please.\u201d<\/p>\n Sainz: \u201cI think there\u2019s more to win by\u2026 guys, I don\u2019t agree. Please.\u201d<\/p>\n Jego: \u201cOK, the situation if you box now, you\u2019re behind five cars in a DRS train and you\u2019re gonna be stuck in a DRS train. Their pace is not good enough, so you\u2019re still pulling away from them. I think we need to stay out and follow the instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n Sainz: \u201cCopy. Let\u2019s see if Alex can pull [me along with] the DRS. OK.\u201d<\/p>\n Jego: \u201cYeah, because if Alex is quicker he will pull you. So let\u2019s try that, OK? Into Turn 4, this lap.\u201d<\/p>\n Sainz followed the team\u2019s instruction on Lap 25, holding the inside line through Curva Grande to allow Albon to slip by into the second chicane.<\/p>\n Albon went on to claim his fourth points finish in the last six races by claiming seventh place, with Sainz coming home 11th after a late tangle with Oliver Bearman\u2019s Haas.<\/p>\n Speaking after the race, Sainz explained that he was seeking a full understanding of the race situation before he committed to the swap.<\/p>\n He told PlanetF1.com\u2019s Thomas Maher and other publications at Monza: \u201cI needed perspective and the big picture of the race, what was happening, before we did the move.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd once they explained, I let him by.\u201d<\/p>\n More on Carlos Sainz and Williams from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Carlos Sainz news<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Williams news<\/a><\/p>\n