McLaren’s effective teamwork was on full display on their way to winning the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

During Sunday’s race in Jeddah,168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri was warned by his team about168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lando Norris’s struggles to overtake168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton as he approached the Ferrari driver following his 🧔pit stop.

It took Norris three laps to get past Hamilton as he recovered from his qualifying crash that left him 10th on the grid𓂃 to take fourth and limit the damage to his 2025 title bid.

Norris twice overtook Hamilton at the final corner, only 🧜to be re-passed immediately at Turn 1 by the seven-time world champion, who ensured he benefitted from being in DRS range of the McLaren along the 🌠pit straight.

A ra▨dio message which was not broadcast during coverage of the race revealed that Piastri was warned about Hamilton’s tactic by his race engineer Tom༒ Stallard.

“Against Lando, Hamilton was letting him through into [Turn] 27 and passing back into 1,” Stallard informed Piast♚ri on Lap 19.

“Best to overtake into 1.”

Piastri would go on to pull off a sublime around-the-outside overtake on Hamilton into Tu𓃲rn 22, one of the fastest sections of th🥀e circuit.

McLaren boss reveals teamwork

M꧙cLaren team principal Andrea Stella explained that Norris’s race engineer Will Joseph too༒k it into his own hands to inform Stallard about his driver’s struggles to pass Hamilton.

“You’ve given me the opportunity here to a💝ctually tell you a story,” Stella said.

“The story is that Lando’s race engineer proactively told Oscar’s race engineer: ‘We struggled to pass Lewis because we attempted twice in Corner 27෴ and he passed us back in Corner 1, so make sure that Oscar knows that ಞand he gives it a go directly in Corner 1.’

“I was very proud while on the pit wall to hear that. I didn’t need to prompt 🐲anything.

“I was just a spectator🍎 to an example of the great team spirit and team wo♕rk that we have at McLaren.

“So well done to Will Joseph, well done to Tom꧟ Stallard, well done to the team of people.

“I think ꧃for a podium finish [Norris] would have needed not to lose the time with Hamilton.

🌊“Obviously, Hamilton is Lewis Hamilton. He knows v♌ery well how to race and for a couple of laps he managed to pass Lando.

“And I think this cost us the time that ultimately means that we could not give it a go at trying to ov💃ertake Leclerc.”