McLaren CEO Zak Brown has defended the decision not to make details of Lando Norris\u2019 \u2018consequence\u2019 public, after his collision with team mate Oscar Piastri at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
In the opening corners of the Marina Bay race, Norris<\/a> made contact with the rear of Max Verstappen\u2019s<\/a> Red Bull<\/a>, before bouncing into Piastri\u2019s<\/a> McLaren<\/a>. With the Briton having gained a position over his team mate, Piastri requested that the places be reversed and voiced his unhappiness over the radio, having commented \u201cthat wasn\u2019t very teamlike\u201d before asking: \u201cSo, are we cool with Lando just barging me out of the way?\u201d<\/p>\n Ahead of the United States Grand Prix weekend, Norris admitted to facing “repercussions until the end of the season”<\/a> over the incident, while Team Principal Andrea Stella explained the consequences had been accepted<\/a> by both drivers.<\/p>\n With questions continuing over the nature of the repercussions, Brown was quizzed during Friday’s press conference in Austin as to why he and the team did not feel the need to reveal what they entailed.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re racing against nine other teams, and I don\u2019t think you want to necessarily show your hand on how you go motor racing,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe try to be as transparent as possible, but there\u2019s a reason why engineering debriefs are only with teams, otherwise you start inviting other teams in.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s the best we can do. We try to be as transparent as possible in saying that some action has been taken, so I think that has been very transparent.<\/p>\n “But at the end of the day, we\u2019re at a sporting event and we can\u2019t necessarily tell everyone everything, no different than our set up sheets aren\u2019t very public.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Papaya Rules\u2019 \u2013 the code of conduct Piastri and Norris abide by on the racing track \u2013 have become a growing talking point as the pair engage in their championship battle, with Brown conceding the policy has \u201ctaken on a bit of a life of its own\u201d.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cWe just want to make sure that while they\u2019re racing hard, they don\u2019t come together because that puts them at risk, that puts the team at risk, so we agreed with them in the off-season how we would handle certain situations.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a pretty minor incident at the start of a Grand Prix. It\u2019s pretty chaotic [in those moments], it was a damp track, it clearly wasn\u2019t intentional, and so we worked through with them different consequences for different situations. It was a pretty minor situation, so it\u2019s a pretty minor consequence.\u201d<\/p>\n Pressed again to share details of the \u2018consequence\u2019 suffered by Norris, Brown said: \u201cNo, we don\u2019t want to get into that. I think that\u2019s private business between us.<\/p>\n “I know everyone is interested to know, but both drivers are in a great place and we just want to be able to set them up to be able to continue to race each other hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"McLaren CEO Zak Brown has defended the decision not to make details of Lando Norris\u2019 \u2018consequence\u2019 public, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[4199,707,4200,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-509210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115394740995852007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}