McLaren is imposing team orders 'lite' that will see Oscar Piastri help Lando Norris's title bid — but with the freedom to win races on merit. Mark Hughes asks if the policy can cope with the realities of an F1 championship race?
From this weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, McLaren will be operating a team orders policy so as to aid Lando Norris's chances of winning the world championship. But uniquely it's not a full-on favouring of Norris. More a slight change of emphasis.
Norris winning the championship is a very tall order given his 62-point deficit to Max Verstappen at the head of the table. But given the respective form of McLaren and Red Bull in recent races, and the way Norris's team-mate Oscar Piastri was able to take advantage of a very conservative Norris on the first lap at Monza, McLaren has been obliged to act...
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