Max Verstappen’s telling response to McLaren’s Italian GP team orders

Baffled by McLaren’s team orders at Monza over a “slow stop”, Max Verstappen made clear his feelings on such an order with Timo Glock saying the reigning World Champion would “never have done that”.

McLaren raised eyebrows at the Italian Grand Prix when the team asked Oscar Piastri to give second place back to Norris after he lost it during a slow pit stop.

‘Max Verstappen would never have done that’

Although Piastri was running behind Norris as the teammates fought over second place behind Verstappen , it was the Australian who pitted first after Norris gave the go-ahead, told by his race engineer Will Joseph that there would “be no undercut”.

There wouldn’t have been an undercut were it not for a slow pit stop for Norris.

Pitting the lap after his teammate, an issue with tightenin