Oscar Piastri has detailed that his manager Mark Webber has not given him any "direct advice" on team orders after the McLaren F1 saga.
With Piastri and Lando Norris enjoying the competitive MCL38 machine, Norris is the more likely of the two to mount a drivers' championship charge, being just 52 points behind Max Verstappen, with Piastri currently fourth in the standings on 237 points, even behind the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
In Hungary and Italy, team orders flared up, with McLaren implementing 'papaya rules' for the Monza race after a Norris-Piastri front-row lockout with Verstappen well down the grid, but a poor start for Norris was compounded when Piastri barged past at the second chicane on the opening lap, dropping the Briton to third.
Leclerc won that race, but Piastri finished second ahead of Norris, who could have received an extra three points had the pair swapped. This came after Hungary where McLaren strategy al
"I mean he's very much been involved in the discussions with myself and the team," Piastri told media including RacingNews365 when asked if Webber's advice had been saught.
"But I think some of the team orders and team disputes [he experienced] have been a very different set of circumstances to what we have.
"So there has not been any direct advice on what happened [in Italy].
"It has always been about trying to work collaboratively with the team on what we are willing to do in support [of Norris] and what I'm willing to do. It has been that kind of guidance."
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