Team orders are back with a vengeance in Formula 1.
To be fair, team orders haven’t really left the world’s top racing series. But Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix provided the most glaring recent example.
Lando Norris pulled over from the lead with two laps to go to allow teammate Oscar Piastri to go by. Piastri held on ahead of Norris for the final two laps to score his first F1 win and become the seventh different winner in the first 13 races of the 2024 season.
Piastri led for much of Sunday’s race after he took the lead on the opening lap.