Oscar Piastri shoots down Lando Norris sabotage theory

At Italian Grand Prix qualifying, McLaren's plan had Oscar Piastri running ahead of Lando Norris to provide a slipstream 'tow,' but Piastri locked a wheel into the first corner and aborted his lap. Norris, forced to run without the tow, estimated it cost him three tenths of a second and was relegated to eighth on the grid, while Piastri qualified sixth. Piastri has since addressed speculation that the incident was a deliberate act of sabotage against his team-mate, admitting he 'could have done things a bit differently.'