McLaren is a particular team for episodes like the one that was lived this Sunday in Austria, where Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave themselves wax of the good without the dome of the team intervening. And if he did, his mediation was so subtle that none of his pilots could use it as a pretext to justify himself. And he ended up against the wall when he tried to advance his partner to the desperate one, Bristol’s pilot managed Terminator in miniature, for reliable and cold. The battle between the couple of the Papaya cars had several assaults, divided into two waves, divided by the visits to the workshops. From the outset, Piastri threw Norris the car up to three times, before the window window was opened. The first to change gums was the British, who made him three turns before his partner. That margin provisionally separated them on the track, sent their respective corners, leaving the final pulse later.
The more than six seconds between the leader (Norris) and his only persecutor (Piastri) were dwarfing with the passage of kilometers and laps; more subtle until the time of the second rubber change came, and much faster after him. With new rubbers, the one that leads him to bite and not release his prey, regardless of the same colors as him. The almost four seconds between the two before the second step through the garages were reduced to less than half (1.8 seconds) when the time of truth came. An important but not enough differential to counteract the space McLaren had generated from the wall, thanks to the strategy, it is assumed that on purpose, to avoid a fratricidal struggle such as the one lived in Montreal.
McLaren’s story is truffled with incidents among colleagues, see fireworks between Senna and Prost, in the nineties; And more recently, in the mid -2000s, and ended with the departure by legs of the Ovetense. On this occasion, the initial Sabblazos between Norris and Piastri motivated the arbitration of the bosses, who do not plan to compromise the obvious superiority offered by the most sharp car on the grill. This triumph is the third of the course for the current runner -up of the world, which put the icing on a great weekend, built from a pole great, with more than half a second advantage. “It is not bad that from time to time my old self is still,” said Norris, on Saturday, giving that twist that placed him at the head of the formation. His theoretical emotional vulnerability contrasts with the chilling serenity of his neighbor, with whom he forms the most attractive duo of all.
The fourth double of the Woking structure (Great Britain), combined with the abandonment of Max Verstappen, in the first round and after being onslaught by Kimi Antonelli, leaves a very favorable panorama so that, 17 years after the last time (2008), the title of pilots is exhibited in the Technology Center. Charles Leclerc closed the podium in a race in which his only hope passed because the first two were eliminated by each other, while Fernando Alonso finished the seventh and Carlos Sainz could not even take the exit, as a result of a series of calamities that accumulated his Williams on the grid.
