{"id":23446,"date":"2025-09-15T06:21:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/piastris-watching-a-larger-picture-as-the-team-orders-drama\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:21:22","slug":"piastris-watching-a-larger-picture-as-the-team-orders-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/piastris-watching-a-larger-picture-as-the-team-orders-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastris watching a larger picture as the team orders drama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Oscar Piastri says following a team’s order from McLaren is critical to the team’s future success and protects some reps who provide race-winning machinery to drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n

McLaren told Piastri to move in for Lando Norris after Norris placed a position on his teammates in the second half of the Italian Grand Prix at a slow pit stop. The call deems McLaren a slow stop when he is out of the hands of either driver, and is designed to keep the driver’s championship fight as fair as possible, and Piastri says he sees a big picture when respecting such demands.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We’ve said many times that we don’t want a chance to succeed just this year,” Piastri said. \u201cNext year there will be a major regulatory change, and we don’t know how competitive we are.<\/span><\/p>\n

“In the end, as long as we are Formula 1 drivers, we want the best chance to win the championship, and we both have been in McLaren for a very long time. It’s very important to protect the people around us who give us this opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf we were fighting very closely throughout the race, that would be slightly different, but Rand would have been moving a few seconds ahead throughout the race, so I have no worries about that.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Again, I don’t want to fight for the championship this year. I want it for as long as possible. I can protect people, including those who are doing pit stops. That’s not a very good feeling (make mistakes), and it’s important to protect all the people we have.<\/span><\/p>\n

Norris supported the Piastri perspective, saying that the work being done at this point in driver relations is designed to provide the best foundation for long-term success.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The team is a priority,” Norris said. “Teams are number one and drivers are second. That’s how it works. Usually, a driver doesn’t fully respect the team and the opportunity they give them (drivers) but they don’t usually last long.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Whether it’s Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, you can see it on a lot of other teams. We want to work hard at this position for longer than what they were on top.<\/span><\/p>\n

“But like Oscar said, the team gives us these opportunities. Without the team, we’re fighting for the 10th. None of us want.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oscar Piastri says following a team’s order from McLaren is critical to the team’s future success and protects some reps who provide race-winning machinery to drivers. McLaren told Piastri to move in for Lando Norris after Norris placed a position on his teammates in the second half of the Italian Grand Prix at a slow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,18,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-23446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-formula","9":"tag-formula-racing","10":"tag-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}