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"You're free to race" after manipulating the race so your favorite driver wins out. Fuck McLaren and Lando. No team orders to swap at Silverstone btw.
I hope Oscar wins the championship to spite them.
What exactly did Lando do wrong here? He never requested the swap or said anything about it. Not entirely sure how Silverstone is relevant as that was Piastri's mistake not the teams.
In Silverstone Piastri said that if the team thinks he did nothing wrong then they should let him swap with Lando but Lando wasn't told to give the position back. At Monza Lando did nothing wrong but Piastri was told to give the position back. Which means either McLaren thought Piastri deserved his 10 second penalty or they prefer Lando over Piastri. I'm not saying McLaren is definitely preferring one driver over the other, but it is starting to look like it.
The McLaren team have positioned themselves as the arbiter of fairness. If it's about being fair and they thought Piastri did nothing wrong they should have restored fairness too.
Lando did nothing unusual wrong but from replaying his pit stop a bit, it looked like he didn't drive neatly in the lines, which can cause problems for the mechanics. Though if someone has the true top-down view from that I'm happy to change that view.
Ofcourse the problem is their arbitrary interference in the race which seemingly seems to benefit mostly one driver when it comes to the 2025 WDC.