“Each drivers are mathematically in place, however Lando is clearly in the perfect place from a numbers perspective, and we’re preventing Max Verstappen, so if now we have to present assist to 1 driver, now we have to select the motive force that’s in the perfect place,” mentioned Stella.
He continued: “Already in our dialog even earlier than the race right here [at Monza], we acknowledged that Lando is in the perfect place within the drivers’ championship perspective.
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“We now have conversations with Oscar, with Lando, and collectively, and that defines our guidelines of engagement. We’d like to check out the primary lap, but it surely must be executed in a means that’s competent, is detailed, is restricted, takes into consideration the movies, the drivers’ expectation…
“Then [we will] see what we are able to study from this example to regulate future conditions, save the actual fact we do wish to give it a go together with the championship with Lando proper now.”
Pushed if meaning McLaren now have a primary, Stella added: “Nicely, primary works properly as a headline, I’m undecided it really works in the actual world by way of, ‘What does it imply?’
