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Formula 1

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Oscar Piastri should have disobeyed team orders

Max Verstappen simply laughed to his race engineer when he was told that Oscar Piastri had let McLaren team-mate Lando Norris through to take second place. “Ha! Just because he had a slow stop?” was the Monza race winner’s curt view of McLaren’s team order . The situation was a little more complex than that, but the Dutchman was fundamentally right.

McLaren have been resolute in their desire to keep the championship fight between their two drivers fair and harmonious and that manifested itself in an extreme form on Sunday night. Their caution is understandable as intra-team rivalries can be ruinous.

McLaren know that from when Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost faced off in the late-1980s. This year they have two fas

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