Re: Hungary 2024 - Piastri/Norris

On 2024-07-22 19:50, Geoff wrote:

On 23/07/2024 7:23 am, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-22 00:14, Sir Tim wrote:

Geoff <geoff@geoffwood.org> wrote:

The call to swap places was fair enough, given that calling PIA in was a
team tactic.
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But I reckon NOR shot himself in the foot by not letting PIA past at the
earliest opportunity. If he had, he would have had more laps in which to
  potentially overtake him and win the race.

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Difficult to imagine this sort of situation arising when Ron Dennis was in
charge (also difficult to imagine Schumacher/Senna/Vettel complying).
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Given that Norris is well ahead of Piastri in the WDC, McLaren should have
let Lando win. Tough on Oscar, but F1 is a tough sport and his day will
come.
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With McLaren apparently dominant it is not beyond the bounds of possibility
that Norris could win the WDC - I just hope he doesn’t miss out by less
than 7 points
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Based on what I read of Norris's remarks after the race, I think there was pretty clearly an agreement between the two drivers that if one of them was ahead at some still-unknown earlier point in the race, then that driver would get the win.

 Yeah but from lap 44 (was it) of 70 ?!!! Plenty of opportunity for real racing between them both after that and for NOR to potentially regain his place, if the could ...
 geoff
 

Team orders have been a part of F1 since forever.
Teams make these agreements to make sure their drivers don't take each other out.
I don't know for certain if there was an agreement or what it was, but if there WAS an agreement, then Norris should be applauded for living up to his agreements.