Briton surrendered race lead as instructed by McLarenOscar Piastri let through for maiden win at Hungarian GP
Lando Norris admitted he considered disobeying the team orders to surrender the lead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, to allow his McLaren teammate, Oscar Piastri, to take victory, describing his thought process in the closing stages as he engaged in a tense standoff with his team as “pretty crazy”.
Norris had been told by McLaren to hand back the lead he had gained through a pit-stop strategy decision from Piastri, who had led almost the entire race. However, for the final 17 laps Norris vehemently resisted the repeated and increasingly frenetic calls to concede the position, before finally doing so reluctantly with three laps to go.