This Old Man

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[naenia ¹ ⁶³ @naenia01]

Zak Brown on team orders:

“Will you have that discussion if - I suppose Oscar’s lying 3rd and Lando’s 4th and Oscar’s opportunity really isn't there to get the result he needs to win the championship. Would you expect him to yield the land? Would you have to make that call?”

Zak Brown: “Yes, of course. We’re realists, we’re realistic. We want to win this driver’s championship. So, we’re coming into the weekend knowing that they both have equal opportunity, even tough there’s obviously a point spread, you know. You don’t know how qualifying will go, reliability, but if we get into the race, it’s becoming pretty clear that one has a chance and the other doesn't, we are going to do what we can to win the Drivers’ Championship. It would be crazy not to. We want to win the Drivers Championship. So we’ll kind of see how the race plays out but we’re not gonna not win the championship because we’re trying to protect a third and fourth or sixth and seventh, or whatever the situation may play out.”

“Do you think the casual sports fan will understand that? I mean Max Verstappen yesterday, when that scenario put to him, said ‘that is racing, that’s what we expect.’ It’s not how you want to win it, but do you think there will be any kind of kickback if it does end up that way?”

Zak Brown: “No, I think, you know, it’s a team support, right? So we’re trying to win the Constructors’ as a team, and we’re trying to win drivers’ as a team. I know that kind of sounds a bit strange, but if one of them can’t win, they want the other to win. And that’s what the team wants, they are great team players. And we’ve already seen that last year, right? You saw that in the sprint in Brazil, and I think it was Qatar. So I don’t think it's unusual in any sport for teammates to make sacrifice for each other to give the team what they want.”

#AbuDhabiGP

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@SkySportsF1 Zak the Snake Brown

[Cytrus 🍋 @cytrusf1]

Laps led in 2025:

🇦🇺 Piastri - 435
🇳🇱 Verstappen - 413
🇬🇧 Norris - 373

Tells you all you need to know

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@MattP1Tommy Andrea and Zak are out of their depth. They need a Horner or Toto in there to properly cook with a good car.

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@McLarenF1 Lol proving Verstappen's point really.
All speed and no strategy.

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@F1 The craziest thing is that if Oscar went through the pits and then kept Verstappen in check, Lando would have likely had a chance to overtake and eliminate Verstappen from the championship

[Kym Illman @KymIllman]

McLaren got the strategy wrong today, allowing Max Verstappen to take the victory. The team will no doubt be discussing it long into the night. We now head to Abu Dhabi next week with three drivers still in contention for the Championship.

#formula1 #f1 #f1news #f1content #QatarGP

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@SpannersReady What a wild take.
They clearly didn't want to give Oscar an advantage in the face of the most obvious pit strategy.
That just fuels the conspiracy more.

[ari @piastrussell]

do you know how monumentally you have to fuck up for SKY SPORTS to be upset for OSCAR? over LANDO? holy shit man. everybody can see this should’ve been oscar’s win.

[connor @OP81con]

McLaren proved today, unequivocally, that they do not have “two number one drivers”.

They never did. They never will. They lied to our faces all season and when it mattered most, they proved it.

[riri @oopspiastri]

oscar qualified ahead of his teammate and had a great start???

and yet mclaren couldn't give him the best strategy because it would compromise his teammate

[Cytrus 🍋 @cytrusf1]

If Piastri wins next week with Max in 2nd and Lando in 3rd, he'll miss out on the championship by 6 points.

You know where he lost 6 points?

[gwesped ari 🐝 @laurogeitabat]

andrea stella admits they could have won with oscar today, that he deserved it, and that they didn't double stack because it would have put lando at a disadvantage.

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

In Hungary, McLaren was all too happy for Lando to have an alternative and more aggressive strategy, which usurped his teammate.
In Qatar, no chance for Oscar. Not even for an aggressive strategy, they simply didn't want the slightest inconvenience for Lando.
#speechless

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@karunchandhok It's pretty obvious and I think most of you know. Even Andrea hinted, it was to not disadvantage Lando.

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

McLaren, in the words of Carlos, stop inventing!
What a balls up. Speechless.
#f1 #QatarGrandPrix

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

Stella admits part of the reason they didn't pit was to avoid harming Norris.
Speechless.
#f1 #QatarGrandPrix

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@MattP1Gallagher Zak said it quite clearly. They'd rather Max

[This Old Man @Heplayedfour]

@ChrisMedlandF1 I wonder if Monza will come back into the conversation... Those 6 points...