McLaren's Andrea Stella has welcomed Lando Norris' vocal criticism on the team radio and stated the Formula 1 team prefers being 'heavily challenged' over having passive drivers.
McLaren's Andrea Stella has welcomed Lando Norris' vocal criticism on the team radio and stated the Formula 1 team prefers being"heavily challenged" over having passive drivers.Norris caused a stir in last weekend's Dutch Grand Prix when he angrily slammed the team for leaving him out too long on slicks in the rain, shouting"are you stupid" to his race engineer.
"When you look at it after you always think 'I make myself look like an idiot' and I get that," Norris said."But the people I speak to know that I would never mean something like that, of course.Team principal Stella said he has no issue with Norris' vocal radio calls and the team prefers being"heavily challenged" by its drivers rather than them being passive.
"This is what champions do. We like this character. We want to be heavily challenged by the driver. And we can be heavily challenged because our culture is strong, we can bear with that. "I talked about culture before and this means that you have awareness of what racing is, you have awareness of how you should take drivers' comments, and just make use of it as long as they are constructive and just dismiss all the rest," Stella added.
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