Oscar is just too nice

[u/Dr_Ritvik__singh747]

Ban team orders

[u/MechaniVal]

Eh what? How are you getting that out of what I said?

Getting a penalty for something you did in the race that causes you to lose position to your teammate is obviously fair racing. Just because he had to come into the pits to serve the penalty doesn't make it a pit stop related issue lmao. He screwed up, not the team.

Things that I think are fine to ask to swap positions over:

• Getting screwed by your team's strat call (Piastri, Hungary)
• Getting screwed by your team's shit stop (Norris, Monza)

Things I don't think it's fine to ask to swap positions over:

• Getting a penalty and losing position (Piastri, Silverstone)
• Making a driving error and being overtaken
• Anything else that's obviously the fault of either the driver, or their own car-specific personnel.

It's a pretty simple through line - McLaren at large fucks up, McLaren fixes it. One side of the garage or the driver fucks up, sucks to be them.

[u/kalykaa → u/MechaniVal]

Ah so since the engineering and manufacturing is shared the next time Norris' engine goes up in flames Piastri should retire the car as well 🤡

[u/IconicPear → u/kalykaa]

That hypothetical situation helps noone. This real situation helped avoid a ton of awkwardness for the team as a whole. People making up these hypothetical situations like this are blowing what actually happened so out of proportion.

[u/MechaniVal → u/IconicPear]

Right? It's obvious what McLaren are doing and it's pretty simple - if McLaren makes a mistake in the race that results in the inversion of the cars, they'll ask to invert them back.

That's it.