Andrea Stella believes McLaren was “a bit greedy” and was “responsible” for two poor decisions that ruined the team’s chances of winning the British Formula 1 Grand Prix. When it rained at Silverstone, the McLaren appeared to be the fastest car on the track, as evidenced by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri taking the lead, but this caused major problems when it became necessary to switch to intermediate cars.

Not wanting to risk pit-stops twice, McLaren gave Piastri another lap on slick tyres, causing him to drop from the lead to sixth and lose his chance of victory as Norris regained control. race. The other key call centered on the fitting of soft tires rather than a completely new set of medium tires for Norris when switching to slicks, with the deterioration causing him to lose second place to Max Verstappen on hard tires on end of the race.

Reflecting on the calls, Stella believes that McLaren is simply “greedy”. “We should have accelerated more when entering the double corner, because delaying Oscar’s stopping time by one lap took us more time than when entering the double corner,” he shared with the media, including RacingNews365. “So, looking back, it was the right thing to stop at the same time, we will learn from this time and we will do better next time.

“I think we were a bit greedy in not wanting to accept that we were going to lose time with the double stack system, but the reality is that sometimes you just have to be patient and accept that you’re going to take time, but just do the right thing. “Rather hope that running one more lap won’t cost too much, especially when it rains fairly steadily. “Switching to soft tires was not the right decision for us. In fact, we damaged the tires too much to be able to stay above Verstappen and Lewis [Hamilton], and to be fair , Lewis did a great job keeping the tires soft and lasting.”

Call Norris soft tires
Regarding the decision to use soft instead of medium for Norris, who discussed the matter over the radio, Stella added that since the team had more information, they just needed to make a decision.

“This is a decision we should have made, just like when we stopped the Oscar on twin tyres, we should have taken responsibility for saying ‘this is the right tyre'”, he added. “I think when we talked to Lando, we had some doubts about that and this led us to go in this direction, but looking back it wasn’t right. “We have the ability to make decisions, we have more information, we have more people so a moderate decision instead of a lenient decision would be a better decision. “Like it’s 100% my responsibility, other people, drivers give their opinion, and in this case the call has to go to the media because the software may not be getting to Final.”