They do, but McLaren have been trying to run this micro-managing fannying around “papaya rules” thing where they say they have no number 1 driver and don’t favour either of them.
What this looks like in practice is: interfering with the racing, and telling Piastri to slow down because Norris had a bad pit stop. It’s all been a bit of a fiasco, and it’s made them look like a very namby-pamby team, to my eyes.
The media is definitely making it more of a thing than it really is, but then they haven’t got much else to talk about. And to be fair McLaren aren’t helping themselves.
Don’t most teams favour one driver vs the other?
I mean RB does bend over backwards for Max who is, openly, their #1 driver since he got the seat
They do, but McLaren have been trying to run this micro-managing fannying around “papaya rules” thing where they say they have no number 1 driver and don’t favour either of them.
What this looks like in practice is: interfering with the racing, and telling Piastri to slow down because Norris had a bad pit stop. It’s all been a bit of a fiasco, and it’s made them look like a very namby-pamby team, to my eyes.
I get that… but I find F1 is 99% melodrama when it comes to stuff like this
The media is definitely making it more of a thing than it really is, but then they haven’t got much else to talk about. And to be fair McLaren aren’t helping themselves.
Yeah it’s a very different sport than it used to be, that’s for sure.