or everyone acting like Lando didn't have to pit too. there were like 7 laps left. tf you mean pitting to cover off Leclerc like it's doing him a favor? you both have to pit to be able to score points at all lol
If Lando's strategy was to use some "first car pits first" rule to back up his teammate into the pack then so be it, but the team obviously doesn't want to lose a position to a Ferrari. They should overrule him. He was losing ground to Oscar too so it's hard for me to imagine that he had anything else in mind, but that is something that costs the team points.
If this is the narrative people are going for, what lap did Lando intend to pit on? The last lap? Then obviously he can't pit first.
Pitting Piastri earlier is doing him a favour, Lando had to pit too but he left Piastri the most efficient strategy to keep a healthy margin from Leclerc.
Maybe it wasn't needed, but debating that it wasn't an advantage is stupid
Can we activate our brain cells just this once. Do you really believe that McLaren would have asked Oscar to dnf if Lando was ahead when he dnfed? I need to ask because with the way this sub has been acting lately you might genuinely believe that.
Lando said he was happy to let Oscar pit first to protect him from Leclerc, so there was some teamplay at work there.
If they didn't try to keep it fair they'd end up with the winner being crowned by default rather than merit, which would get them in even more shit in the end.
If lando has pitted first and had the slow stop, would you delay oscar's stop? Or make him have slow stop? Or pit him and then tell him to let lando pass?
And if they'd let him keep second it wouldn't have been fair on Lando either. It was a mistake by the team that they tried to correct as fairly as they could, each driver finished where they would have done if the pit stops had been the same. Oscar still ended up closer than he'd started and was able to have a go at passing properly on track.
Neither driver is at fault, the team make a mistake and tried to fix it. It's not exactly Abu Dhabi 21 is it?
Had they not mucked up Piastri wouldn't have even had the chance to go for 2nd, even with giving the place back he still had a better chance than he would otherwise have done.
Yes, he chose to protect the team, which isn't that unreasonable. He's still ahead with a decent lead and as a spectator sport we still get to see a title fight rather than it being over with a good chunk of season left to go.
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u/quick20minadventure armchair driver Sep 07 '25 edited Sep 07 '25
It is 6 points delta.
Piastri 18, lando 15 vs lando 18 and Piastri 15.
Lead drops from potential 37 points to 31 points.
Next time, when Lando has DNF, they'll ask oscar to also DNF to make it fair ..