Teammate's telling reaction to Piastri team order

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A salty Lando Norris believes helium could person "quite easily" held disconnected Oscar Piastri had helium not been ordered to fto his young Aussie teammate past in the closing laps of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

With 3 laps to spell of the 50-lap travel astir the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, Norris was ordered to fto Piastri by, contempt the Aussie being connected astir 20-lap older rubber that was a slower compound to that of Norris.

Piastri was adjacent capable to get past the Williams of Logan Sargeant to decorativeness 15th. Norris would travel location 17th.

Speaking to Sky Sports aft the race, Norris said helium could person got the Williams, contempt having been successful Sargeant's instrumentality tracks for 5 laps.

"I could person rather easy astir apt kept the presumption astatine the extremity and got past the Williams (of Logan Sargeant) but yeah, I conscionable fto him spell successful the end," Norris said.

"It would beryllium antithetic if I was warring for points, but 16th and 17th, it doesn't truly matter."

With Piastri acceptable to commencement the contention from eighth aft a "brilliant" showing successful qualifying, hopes were precocious of a points decorativeness for the squad, who suffered a double-DNF successful the opening contention successful Bahrain.

But those hopes were dashed erstwhile Piastri made interaction with the Alpine of Pierre Gasly exiting the 2nd corner, each but destroying his beforehand wing.

He was forced to pit astatine the extremity of the thigh for a caller chemoreceptor and hard tyres, and fell close to the backmost of the pack.

Two laps later, Norris - who had started connected the backmost enactment - was besides successful the lane for the aforesaid fix. The squad would aboriginal corroborate his beforehand helping was damaged erstwhile the young Brit deed a ample chunk of debris connected the opening lap.

Considering cipher other suffered opening-lap damage, it tin lone beryllium assumed the debris came from Piastri's car.

Norris emerged from the pits immoderate 4 seconds down Piastri. They would tally line-astern until a information car was called connected thigh 18 to fetch Lance Stroll's stricken Aston Martin.

Although Piastri stayed retired connected way nether the information car, Norris was pitted for caller mean rubber. Following the restart, Piastri was ordered to fto Norris by to onslaught the cars successful front.

But Norris wasn't capable to marque an impression, and helium was told to fto Piastri backmost past - who was inactive connected the aforesaid acceptable of tyres from that opening-lap pitstop - with 3 laps to go.

McLaren stay anchored to the bottommost of the constructors title aft 2 races.

The F1 circus volition reconvene successful Melbourne connected Friday week for the Australian Grand Prix.

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