The clips from last year where he does the exact same thing should have cut the legs out from under this thing. Everything is a fucking conspiracy now though.
Well the only reason Piastri is in the lead is because McLaren didn't choose to favor Norris. He wouldn't have caught and passed him if they had. He's going to win the title because he earned it. That's probably a pretty good feeling.
An orange car is still going to win the championship though and they will finish 1 & 2 and win the constructors. They legit don't care which of their drivers it is because of the lead they have over the rest of the field.
They are absolutely choosing to go with fairness because they have the luxury of doing so. If the Red Bull was a little faster and it was a crapshoot most weeks whether a McLaren or Max would win, they would have picked a driver to favor by now.
That Piastri was somehow actually still faster than Lando this weekend while all of the numbers say he wasn't. They swapped positions because it was fair and that's how they've handled it since they've become the fastest car. They don't take in to account who is ahead in the points. They're handling it differently than pretty much how every other team would. Good or bad, they've been consistent with it and I can appreciate that.
They’ve been consistent regardless of who was leading in the points. They made Lando swap with Piastri when he was ahead in the points in Hungary. It really doesn’t matter as Lando isn’t going to catch him. The only drivers who have overcome that big of a deficit are all much better than Lando is. Max is the only active driver that has done it.
Piastri is generally faster than Norris, but Lando was faster in practice, qualifying and the race this weekend. I’m ok with just saying Lando was faster than him this weekend.
It was because Norris let him pit first to stay ahead of LeClerc. It was fair. They let them race after and Norris was faster just like he was all race.
I think alot of it is the track. As the announcers mentioned, there are no fast corners at Monza that the McLarens are so much better than everyone at. The Red Bull still has really good straight line speed.