#Andrea Stella

[maxedes]

when i catch you mclaren

[eirianerisdar]

Nico Rosberg, staring Andrea Stella in the eyes as Silver War flashbacks fill his own: ANDREA THE TEAM HAS TO BE MORE FIRM IN YOUR PHRASING WITH TEAM ORDERS YOU CANNOT GIVE THEM LEEWAY

Andrea Stella: ...okay. You speak from experience. I will take that advice.

[mecachrome]

2024 MIAMI GP | Lando and Andrea after his first P1 finish

[inchidentally]

BETTER CLIP OF ANDREA KISSING HIS BOYS

[bottom55cs]

"Thanks Osc"

"Osc?"

"Osc! It's my nickname."

[acrosstobear]

mclaren It wouldn’t be the same without a team selfie. 🧡🤳

[oscahpitlane]

2024 FIA Prize Awards

Interviewer: Oscar, you have to do a dance!

Oscar: No, I'm definitely not doing a dance.

Interviewer: C'mon, this is your generation's thing, Oscar.

Oscar: I know, but... not yet.

[brasiliangp]

FIA Prize Giving Ceremony 2024

[landotism]

LMAO

[faithinlouisfuture]

Papaya boys surviving the horrors together at the FIA Awards Gala 2024

[biggestdoug]

yall i never want to see zak brown's ugly face again PLEASE i need to see more of stella. first the celebrations after abu dhabi, now this??

he's italian and he's an engineer and he's a little crazy and he looks at oscar like this. what more could you want

[aston14s]

he is sleeping 😭 i can’t with him gdjsgsjs

[subaru-copilot]

I'm SOBBING

[mecachrome]

abu dhabi 2024 / miami 2024

[justc2world]

He made them so happy 😭😭

[dizzyduck44]

There will be a few of these but here is my first takeaway from today’s race.

You can’t lead with no followers

McLaren are getting destroyed by media and their own fans tonight. Not a single person seems to be able to explain why they are reluctant to use team orders against Oscar, but they practically bullied Lando into giving up a win in Hungary.

This has 2007 vibes of saying you will let your drivers fight and all they successfully manage to do is take points off each other.

It’s all well and good saying you have two Number 1 drivers, but Oscar proved today he doesn’t have the mentality to be a number 1 driver yet.

Think back to the end of last season. Lewis, George, Charles and Carlos were shouting at the team lap after lap, tell me if I need to give this place up to my teammate to gain points. How far is so and so off, how many points is that? Where is so and so? How far behind?

They were so desperate to take second in the constructors they were willing to sacrifice for the good of the team.

We have heard Seb and Fernando do it. Hell Nando and Sergio have been one man defensive armies.

Even Max has been seen to do this in the past.

A team leader, a number 1 driver thinks big picture, end game. What is the objective? How do we get there?

Lando has played that game brilliantly at McLaren since he got confident with the car, certainly by 2020. He has been doing it since Miami this season. How do we maximise points? In recent races, how do we take points from Max and Red Bull?

Today after turn 1 everything was in place to do just that, maximise the number of points the team took off Red Bull and Max. Although Oscar’s contact with George had already gifted Max a place.

By his own admission Oscar felt the lunge at turn 3 & 4 was “his only way to win the race”. That was his objective. “I”, “me”, “my”. Not how do I help the team maximise points. If that’s how he thinks, he’s not ready to be a team leader.

“Unexpected” “risky” “aggressive” those are the words his own team has used about it. Not glowing endorsements, support and praise.

To be a number one driver is so much more than just winning races. Look at Alex in Williams. Is he going to win a race this year? Probably not. Does he go out every weekend and give it all for the team? Yes.

A number 1 driver thinks of every person who’s work has put that car on the track and keeps it going throughout the weekend. Thats probably why the team celebrations were so muted. Oscar showed today he values a win for himself over giving the team the constructors championship they so deserve.

Today Oscar showed us all he is not ready to be a team leader and number one driver. So why continue to treat him like one?