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Brundle rejects McLaren’s ‘papaya rules’ as cause of Qatar debacle
©McLaren Michael Delaney
02/12/2025 at 09:2101/12/2025 at 22:26 40 SHARES Share on.. Share on.. Share on.. McLaren’s massive Qatar Grand Prix screw up has been dissected from every angle, with many fans and pundits pointing to the team’s “papaya rules” as the source of the team’s ill-inspired choice not to pit its drivers under the race’s early Safety Car regime. But Sky F1’s Martin Brundle dismissed that theory outright, shutting down the idea that McLaren froze because they were terrified of favouring one driver over the other in a double-stack nightmare. The former Grand Prix driver believes the team didn’t lose out because of its commitment to fairness – they just got...
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