McLaren F1 team hits back to order critics – is it right to do so?

Formula 1 has an attractive comparison between the current nuisance and two notorious examples from the past on stage management.

Why? Because Andrea Stella is one of the three common doses among the three. McLaren Was the principal of the team Fernando AlonsoRace Engineer in 2010 when Alonso’s Ferrari Team-Mate, Felip wartIt was said that “Fernando is faster than you”, a (light) coded message to transfer to German Grand Prix.

The team’s orders were illegal at that time due to incidents eight years ago. Was stalle Michael SchumacherDisplay Engineer Performance Engineer at the infamous 2002 Austrian Grand Prix, when Rubens Barichelo In order to do this with shameful prominence in the final lap, his team partner was ordered to take an edge.

He may be a non-dying member of artists in these historical examples, but Stella may have seen the complexities of these situations for the first time. In both – it is certainly low in Austria, as it was near the beginning of the season – ‘finger puts on the scales’ and was due to competitive advantages to manipulate the result.

There was a lot for these events compared to meeting the eyes. But in the context of what was visible, optics were poor and Ferrari acted with the handling of them, with a sheer bloody -minded ego.

In 2002, even Schumacar was being launched on the podium, the team’s principal Jean Tod took a demonstration of Hauater, a poem-up, which dropped his nose down on any negotiator. Smuggling came out of him like a sick Miyama: not only what I did was completely appropriate, he was saying, but you are also a moran to dare to question it.

The FIA ​​fined Ferrari, Shumakar and Barichelo a joint amount of $ 1 million, half -paid, the rest was suspended, and Scooderia threw cash in the lap of the governing body, in which a waiter was studied for a study of a deary tip. Unlike his subsequent and more thin-tomb tenure as the chairman of the governing body, Tod did not give a tinker’s cusec, which anyone thought he brought to kill the World Championship.

Did the young Andrea Steella learned this and the subsequent team-order Chirakeri from the confused ego in Hockenheim, when once again on the-wet, was slammed once again against all the criticisms with different faces? This seems to be because Stela measured reactions to comments about McLaren’s approach to the management of her drivers and have measured the Statesman.

“I think the noise around the racing situations is natural,” he said in Baku. “Formula 1 is a very popular game. What is important to us is that comments are respectable.

“And when they are respectable, we welcome them, we hear, we keep them in mind – even if the ultimate noise that matters to us is not external noise, but we make it internal what make it internal and how we set to keep ourselves racing.”

How McLaren manages his drivers as “external noise”, marking its surrounding interactions, can be caused by some chaf, but Stella is not wrong, because a good ratio of comments is really noise. But the optics of the situation are very different which depends on that you are inside or outside the tent.

अब तक टीम का संबंध है-टिनफॉइल हैट ब्रिगेड सहमत नहीं हो सकता है-यह ऐसी स्थिति नहीं है जहां दौड़ के परिणामों को एक नामांकित ‘नंबर एक’ ड्राइवर के पक्ष में नहीं किया जा रहा है, जो कि एक नॉट-अल्वाइंट-कम्प्लिएंट नंबर दो पर नहीं है (यह केवल 2002 में ऑस्ट्रिया में अनदेखी कर दिया गया था, जो कि उन्होंने कहा था कि उन्होंने कहा था कि लीड में)।

McLaren, thankfully, has parked the “papaya rule” terminology around the internal rules of engagement, but the principles are clear – perhaps more than last year. Last year Oscar piastry Monza and Magged Team-Mate faced a rush of blood on the head Lando Noris Shortly after the beginning for the lead – a step that eventually won a race to McLaren and damaged the challenging possibility of Noris. Max Verustapane For the World Championship.

This season McLaren has been more open to orchestrate her drivers when it feels Charles LakelerFerrari, but during the post -Noris stop, a blast reversed the order of two mcClance. This put the team in an aggressive position: nothing, and it would feed the fruit-loupe conspiracy principles that it was taking the side of Piastry on Noris; Swap them back around and this – ah yes, feed another strand of equally contained beliefs.

When the team issued instructions to swap locations on the track, it is noteworthy that the only pushback (at least on broadcasting channels) was a slant reference whether it was one of the pre-components within McLaren’s engagement rules.

Externally, at least, then, Stella’s vision is working: he does not want an army/prost, Hamilton/Rosberg scenario on his hands as he runs McLaren through the major rules coming next year.

“The way we racing depends on racing principles,” he said. “On the values ​​that we incarnate as McLaren racing, and there is also a reflection of the fact that we want to protect the unity of the team, which is a fundamental state for the future.

“As I said earlier, the conditions of racing are certainly susceptible to different interpretations. So we are comfortable with noise with comments. We welcome the comments. As I said earlier, what is important is that they are always respectable. Honor is a very important value for McLaren Racing, and I am sure to all.

“So, no surprise around the noise. From the pitwall, we execute what we agree with our drivers, which eventually becomes our racing theory and approach.

“In that case, as I explained after the race (Monza), and as I think the lando and the Oscar explained yesterday – because we had a certain manner in the pitstop to index two cars, were going with the car – then we needed a swap.

“It swaps a swap with a slow stop. But the situation we had with the sequence in terms of strategy is similar to Hungary, and we continuously worked with the situation we have done in Hungary.”

In this, he is referring to last year’s Hungarian Grand Prix, where the Noris was following the piastry on the track, but was first beaten up during the second round stop to save from a danger. Lewis HamiltonStrong out-laps enabled Noris to reduce his team partner and he became stronger to go to the past.

So McLaren feels that it is not doing anything wrong. But the perception of the outside of the tent is very different: separating oblique optics of those who have strong opinions about a driver or another, a comprehensive feeling that ‘racing theory’ represents orchestration by another name.

McLaren, so certain that it is doing the right thing by its drivers, simply feels that the F1 Fandum’s broad world ‘does not get it’.

But at least, the todds are ready to interact on the matter and accept the opposing approaches, unlike the todd of about 2002.