{"id":145262,"date":"2025-09-18T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145262\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:25:08","slug":"oscar-piastri-remains-coy-on-mclaren-f1-team-orders-debate-it-stays-between-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145262\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri remains coy on McLaren F1 team orders debate: \u2018It stays between us\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar Piastri<\/a> kept his guard up when asked about McLaren<\/a>\u2019s team orders debate on Thursday, insisting: \u201cWe don\u2019t want to make the other teams any wiser.\u201d <\/p>\n

Championship leader Piastri, who has a 31-point lead<\/a> heading into the Azerbaijan GP this weekend, was ordered to give up second place at the last round in Monza for title rival Lando Norris<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Although he initially protested, Piastri moved over for his teammate<\/a> in an incident which has sparked debate regarding McLaren\u2019s potential interference in this year\u2019s championship race. <\/p>\n

Yet Piastri, who played the team game, refused to elaborate on the details of any internal discussions ahead of round 17 in Baku. <\/p>\n

“We talk a lot about how we want to race, but most of it stays between us,\u201d the Australian said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t want to make the others any wiser, so we don’t want to give away too much information. But we’re all on the same page.”<\/p>\n

Asked if he would have surrendered position to Norris in Italy if a win was at stake, Piastri responded: “That just wasn’t the situation. It probably would have made it more difficult, but I don’t know.<\/p>\n

“It wasn’t just about the slow [Norris] pit stop but also about the order of our pit stops.<\/p>\n

“But all in all, from a sporting perspective, it was a weekend where I didn’t deserve more than third place. I wasn’t fast enough and I respect the team’s decisions.”<\/p>\n

\"Norris<\/p>\n

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Norris took second place ahead of Piastri in Italy (Getty)<\/p>\n

Piastri won last year\u2019s race in Baku, his second-ever victory in F1<\/a>, and will be looking to extend his lead with eight races to go this season. <\/p>\n

McLaren can wrap up the constructors\u2019 championship with a record seven races to spare this weekend. The reigning champions lead Ferrari by a massive 337 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast season went down to final race, this year the car has been a step better, the team has been performing very well,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMuch more of a sense of inevitability about this year which is an amazing position to be in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-145262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-f1","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}