14/09/2025 16:35
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has suggested his squad will
not need to alter its approach despite stating it would "review"
the team order call at the Italian Grand Prix. Oscar Piastri was
instructed to hand second place back to Lando Norris after the
latter suffered a slow pit stop. Norris was running ahead of
Piastri for the entirety of the race up to that point, but the
order caused a divide as the two drivers are currently embroiled in
a title fight. The team has defended the order, citing fairness and
equality between its two competitors. After Stella mentioned the
team would "review" its principles going forward, the Italian was
further pressed on the subject. "Reviewing is the foundation of
pursuing excellence," Stella responded to the media, including
RacingNews365 . "If you think that whatever you do is good and you
are not going to have an individual or a team review of anything
you do, even the thing you do perfectly, you simply are not going
to progress." Piastri currently leads Norris by 31 points in the
drivers' championship, having stretched out a large gap following
the latter's non-finish at the Dutch Grand Prix. As the season
enters its final third, the battle is likely to increase in
intensity, leaving Stella to ensure the squad is always on top of
its operations. "So for me reviewing, it doesn't mean like, 'Oh,
certainly we will have to change it'," he said. "Potentially, we
will review them, and we will further align on them, and we will
confirm them. So the fact that I use this word doesn't mean that
there will be changes. "The fact that I use this word means that
that's how we approach things at McLaren, and this review, which is
so essential in engineering, in operation, does apply as well in
the way you go racing and does apply in the way you go racing with
your drivers."
