McLaren are set to shift their stance on team orders with Lando Norris's faint F1 title hopes all but over.
Norris’s ambition of winning this year’s world championship suffered a hammer blow as he slipped from pole position to sixth at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix, while title rivalGet the latest F1 news, exclusives, interviews and promotions from the paddock direct to your inboxThe result saw Verstappen extend his championship advantage to 62 points with three races remaining, all but ending Norris’s hopes of winning a first drivers’ title this year.
Norris’s fading championship hopes mean that McLaren will no longer make Piastri, who gave up the sprint win to Norris in Brazil, play a supporting role. “There’s still some, let's say, very specific scenarios where I might be needed to help out. But for the very large majority of situations, it's back to how it was.
“It's certainly not a done deal, so that's definitely the biggest thing. So it's a very specific few scenarios that maybe I'll still help out if that's what I'm asked to do, but I'm going into the weekend trying to win.”
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