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Oscar Norris appeared to give Lando Norris a tow in Barcelona qualifying. Here’s what actually happened.
It has been clarified that McLaren did not intend for Oscar Piastri to give Lando Norris a tow during qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. Norris followed Piastri out of the pits and stayed behind him on his warm-up lap in the final qualifying segment. Piastri almost stopped after his flying lap, but Norris still got a brief slipstream onto the start/finish straight. Piastri jokingly described the moment as “cheeky” on team radio. Although Norris’s first lap was slightly quicker, both drivers improved their times on fresh tires, with Piastri ultimately taking pole position by two tenths of a second. Norris and Piastri both insisted that there was no pre-arranged plan for the tow, calling it a coincidence.
