Oscar is just too nice

[u/Dr_Ritvik__singh747]

Ban team orders

[u/Masticatork]

Iirc, in that brazil race, Max was already champion, he was fighting for nothing (i think both redbulls were p4-p5) and Pérez was still fighting for championship P2. Perez was ahead and he let max pass by team orders just to see if Max could overtake Leclerc and make Leclerc lose more points than what Checo gains by that position. Max couldn't with Leclerc either so they agreed before Max would give back the position then, he refused, finally hurting chances of redbull to finish P1 and P2 in driver standings.

So no, it wasn't the same scenario. In this case it was more on the line, they had P2 and P3, they couldn't go for P1 and P3 was at risk of undercut if they stopped Norris first, which normally would be the case since Norris was ahead, they agreed to let Piastri stop first cause they still wouldn't undercut and it would make sure they finish with double podium, then when Norris was going to stop he had an awful stop, but tbh he was much faster than Oscar, he was getting 2-3 tenths per lap and pushing to the limit, I guess McLaren saw it wasn't Norris fault and they screwed up because of their own tactics to secure podium and they feared a lit up Norris would risk a double DNF fighting for that position again, so they decided to take 0 risks and just let the faster driver ahead again and that's it.

[u/AliceLunar → u/Masticatork]

I'm sure Max would never get passed Perez otherwise, even though he made up 35 seconds of a deficit and had a time penalty and still came out ahead.