McLaren’s new policy to implement team orders is “too late”, Jacq💙ues Villeneuve insists.

McLaren arrived at this weekend’s F1 Azer🃏baijan Grand Prix with a U-turn on their previous ‘Papaya rules’ which favoured hard-but-fair racing between both of their driv🍒ers.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris 💝will now be supported in certain scenarios above Oscar Piastri, McLaren confirmed.

“It’s fair. Had it been Piastri ahead in the championship, it would’ve been the othe🏅r way around,” 1997 F1 champion Villeneuve told Sky Sports.

“T🅷oo bad for him, he didn’t manage to beat Lando earlier in the season. Now, it goes Lando’s way.”

Villeneuve🔴 continued: “You pay the price for🎐 your lack of pace early in the season.

“T☂he following season it might be tꦚhe other way around.

“But, if you don’t play th💮e game now, you can bet that the team and the other driver won’t play the game in the following season.”

Karun Chandhok said: “You have to back one. You never know - next year, McLaren might not be in the championship figh✤t.

“This might be Lando’s꧅ only chance to be in the championship fight.

“If they want to win the drivers’, they have to put everything behind 𒈔one driver.”

But Villeneuve is not imp🥃ressed by the timing of McLaren💜’s new thinking.

“No, it’s too late,” he insisted. “And they haven’t eveꦺn made the decision yet…”

Norris is 62 points behind cham🍷pionship leader Max Verstappen ahead o♑f the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

McLaren are 💙only eight points adrift of Red Bull who top the constructors’.

Piastri has clarified about McꦰLaren’s new team orders: “I꧙t’s not purely going to be me pulling over for Lando every single race.”

Norris insi🧜sted he doesn’t want favours to claim the F1 title: “That's not how I want to win a championship. I want to win it by fighting against Max, by be💮ating Max, beating my competitors.”

Contract clause tipped to play a role

Last time out in Monza, w♛ithout team orders, Piastri finished P2 ahead of Norris.

Piastri overtook Norri𝔍s on La🔯p 1 to give his teammate a difficult start.

“It was a good move only because Lando d🍨id not defend aggressively, because he didn’t e🍌xpect the move,” Villeneuve said.

“They should have come out of that c🔯orner 1-2 with Lando in front.

“Piastri did not follow that, and🌳 it damaged the𒁃 team.

“I didn’t like their interviews. It was overly political and yoꦐu can tell the driඣvers cannot say what they really feel inside.

“It’s only the contract. They cannot stop Piastri going for a personal win but they can forc🌼e him to help the team to win the constructors’.”

Villeneuve claimed that Piastri’s attitude will be: “‘I do not have to give up the win🌱, and I won’t, because I am protected in the contract’.

“[Mark Webber, Piastri’s manager] did an amazing job. As a first-year driver to have a contract as a No1 - amazing! It has neꦚver happened in the past. Good for him.”