Lando Norris said he was 'not proud' that McLaren's team orders controversy at the end of the Hungarian Grand Prix overshadowed teammate Oscar Piastri's first win.
In doing so, Norris' fresh tyre advantage saw Piastri emerge behind him when he made his own pit stop two laps later, with McLaren then ordering Norris to give the lead back.
"Whether people on the outside come up with their own stories of what happened, and what I would have done and wouldn't have done, that kind of thing, I don't mind about that. The fact that I kind of clouded over Oscar's first race win in Formula One is something I've not felt too proud about. " just let him past straight away," Norris said."Such a stupid thing that I didn't, because we're free to race. I could have just let him past and still tried to overtake and to race him.
He added:"I probably wasn't thinking of the right things at the time or what they, there was no, as soon as they basically said let him past now, I let him past straightaway. It was never a fact of was I ignoring or not listening or these kinds of things. It was always clear what I wanted to do and needed to do. I just let it go on a little bit too long."
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