Hindsight unfailingly affords total clarity – and its optics look bad for McLaren after a Qatar Grand Prix about which the best thing which could be said of the outcome is that it was less catastrophic than the Las Vegas round which preceded it.
Team boss Andrea Stella has promised a thorough review of the decision-making process which led to McLaren not pitting either of its drivers when the safety car was deployed on lap seven in Qatar while they were running first and third on the road. All the other cars still in the race except Esteban Ocon – who had already pitted after one lap – broke for the pits.
