Verstappen shrugs off McLaren’s papaya rules: You can’t make F1 “100% fair”
Max Verstappen believes McLaren has made things complicated with its pursuit of fairness between its two title-contending drivers, Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris
“If you leave the door slightly open like Oscar did in Singapore, then you might end up in a situation like that,” Verstappen said.
“But on the other hand, they kind of created this themselves by trying so hard to make everything equal with certain actions.”
In Verstappen’s view, it’s impossible to manage an F1 title fight, and equally impossible to keep everything fair by intervening from the pit wall.
“A championship is never 100 percent fair when it comes to certain moments. Sometimes you get a bad pit stop, sometimes an engine breaks.
“You can’t really balance that out, I think. They see it differently at McLaren, but this is my opinion. It’s very difficult – and that’s what sometimes leads to frustration.”
