2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button believes his former team has no choice but to favour 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris if they are to topple 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in this year’s world championship.

Ahead of this weekend’s United States Grand Prix, Norris is 52 points behind Ve🐎rstappen with six rounds to go.

The points gap means that Verstappen can afford to finish second at every race - including sprints - to become a four-time F1 world champio𝓰n.

If Verstapp♎en wins this year’s title, Norris will be left to ru𒁏e a number of poor McLaren strategy calls and lack of team orders.

Norris was forced to give 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri the win in Hungꦡary after taking it🌌 through the pit stop phase.

At Monza, while they were free to race, Piastri’s aggressive overtake into the second chicane left Nor🅷ris vulnerable to Leclerc.

Giving his view on the situation at McLaren, Button told the Sky F1 podcast: “I love that there's no team orders because as a racing driver y♛ou hate them. But at some point, if you want to win a world championship, you need to favour one driver.

“Especially at this point in the championship where every single point counts right now. For Lando, if he has any opportunity of becoming a world champion in 2024, he needs every single point. And, you know, that's even using Oscar to grab the fastest lap if Max has got it in 🌠a race.

“🅺So it's a really tricky situation for a driver, for drivers in a team and for a team. But it's got to happen. You know, that's the reason why Ferrari won so many world championships with Mꦅichael Schumacher. In a way why Vettel was able to win so many world championships.

“I think that sometimes you've got to bite the bullet an🐷d you need to favour one drivওer, especially at this point of the season. Oscar's done an amazing job this year, but Lando has more points and a good amount more points. If the team want to win, not just the constructors' but the drivers' as well this year, that's what's going to have to happen.”

McLaren have a comfoꦰrtable lead in the constructors’ championship over Red Bull, with 41 points between the two teams.