McLaren’s strategy at th🌌e F1 Japanese Grand Prix has been criticised for not being bold enough.

Red Bull’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen converted his pole position into victory at Suzuka last weekend, ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri.

Norris, who ended up on the grass🔜 when he exited the pits at the same time as Verstappen, later wondered whether an undercut strategy might have given him a better shot against♊ his rival.

Piastri’s team radio request t🌠o let him attack Verstappen was also rejected.

“The weird thing in the race was how McLaren misused their advantage,” F1 analyst .

“The whole point of having two💜 quick drivers in the car, capable of winning the Japanese Grand Prix, is that if they find themselves P2 and P3, let both guys do a bit ofꦚ punching.

“Let Oscar force Max to take more out of his tyres thanꦗ he wants, t🍌hen let Lando take advantage of that. Start doing some stuff like that.

“They just sat there! What were they waiting for? Waiting for🅰 Max to mak💎e a mistake?

"I didn’t get that, at all.

“There was all this stuff ‘great podium finish for McLaren’. But they had the best car and🍎 should have won the grand prixꦛ. But they didn’t, they were beaten by a better guy.”

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The first three grands prix of the 2025 F1 s🌌eason have been won by Norris, Pi🦩astri and Verstappen.

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella could point to the drivers’ and constructor𒊎s’ championship for proof of why they made their decisions in Japan.

Norris is a point clear of Verstappen at the top𝓀 of the drivers’, and McLaren lead thღe constructors’.

They will renew rivalries this ♔weekend at the F1 Bahrain Grand Prix where McLaren are again expected to have the fastest car.

♑Windsor said about McLaren’s drivers in Japan: “Both of th💧em knew they’d been given a massive punch by Max.

“It will have cleared after half-an-hou🎉r when they rಌealised there aren’t many tracks like Suzuka on the calendar.

“Go to Bahrain, and the McLare🧔n is bound to be even better than the Red Bull than it was at Suzuka.

“All they need to do is to put in a re🎃asonable lap to 𝕴be ahead of Max. I’m sure that’s how they are thinking.

“I can’t think of many circuits where a guy like Max can do what he did✱ in♌ an inferior car.”