08/09/2025 19:10
Max Verstappen trounced the McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar
Piastri at the Italian Grand Prix, easing to victory as chaos
ensued behind him at Monza. The Woking-based squad made the highly
contentious call of invoking team orders to restore Norris to
second place after a slow pit stop had seen him undercut by
Piastri. Despite reluctantly acquiescing to the decision, the
24-year-old made his feelings known over team radio. It has proven
polarising within the paddock and outside of it, given the McLaren
team-mates are locked in an F1 drivers' championship battle, with
both pursuing their first titles. Here is how media from around the
world reacted to the sixteenth round of the F1 season, the Italian
Grand Prix. 🇬🇧 The Times - Norris booed on podium after team orders
row over McLaren pitstop gaffe British broadsheet newspaper The
Times focused on the reaction from the Monza crowd to Norris in the
aftermath of McLaren's intervention into the race result. The
25-year-old was jeered at as he emerged on the podium at the Temple
of Speed to accept his trophy for finishing second. It was a
seldom-covered element of the fallout from the Woking-based squad's
decision to enact team orders, a divisive matter that will no doubt
play a starring role on media day for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. 🇳🇱
De Telegraaf - Red Bull team boss Laurent Mekies completely ignores
himself: "I contributed nothing to this success." Dutch paper De
Telegraaf addressed home son Verstappen's victory in the Italian
Grand Prix, but shone a spotlight on Red Bull team principal
Laurent Mekies. Specifically, it highlighted remarks made by the
Frenchman after the race at Monza, which was Red Bull's first grand
prix win of his era in charge. He moved to downplay his involvement
in the triumph, instead shifting the focus and praise onto the 1500
people who work beneath him in Milton Keynes. 🇦🇺 Herald Sun - F1
storm erupts as Oscar Piastri dudded by own team in fastest race in
history Australian tabloid the Herald Sun unsurprisingly zeroed in
on the controversy surrounding McLaren's use of team orders,
something that adversely affected Piastri. It claimed the nine-time
grand prix winner had been "dudded" by the papaya team, suggesting
he was tricked or swindled out of second position. Without that
intervention, he would have left Monza with a 37-point lead over
Norris in the F1 drivers' standings; instead, his advantage is just
31. The article also underlined the record Verstappen helped clinch
for F1 in Italy, taking the record for the quickest grand prix in
the championship's history. 🇮🇹 La Gazetta dello Sport -
Norris-Piastri reversal, Verstappen mercilessly on the radio: "Ah
ah ah, just for a slow stop?" Also addressing the contentious
late-race team orders at McLaren, Italian publication La Gazetta
dello Sport pointed out Verstappen's reaction over team radio to
the call. When informed by engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, the
Dutchman could see the funny side of it, laughing whilst
questioning the logic and virtue of the constructors' champion's
decision. It is not a situation the four-time F1 drivers' champion
has encountered much during his own career, given his stranglehold
on the number 1 status at Red Bull. 🇪🇸 El País - Max Verstappen's
monstrous triumph at Monza Spanish outlet El País covered the
dominance displayed by Verstappen in cantering to his third grand
prix victory of the season. The 27-year-old finished the race
almost 20 seconds up the road from Norris, the largest winning
margin of the campaign. The fact it was minutely contributed to by
the mess surrounding McLaren's pit stops and Piastri letting his
team-mate past should take nothing away from his "monstrous"
performance, which came just 12 months after driving an actual
"monster" at Monza, as Verstappen himself put it. 🇫🇷 L'equipe -
Leclerc and Hamilton celebrated anyway French publication L'Equipe
put McLaren and Verstappen aside momentarily to address the
rapturous reception Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton received at
Monza. It has been a difficult season for the Scuderia, but that
did not dampen the adoring Tifosi's reaction to the two drivers
across the weekend. Whilst not the on-track result the fans would
have hoped for, with fourth and sixth, respectively, the response
to the pair underlines how much support there is for them and
Ferrari to turn things around.
