Lando has a long-term problem with this type of stuff. I don’t know if it’s age or if they haven’t provided him the media training just say it’s your fault and move on because people will also move on. The excuse making sucks from a team that is supposed to at the absolute pinnacle of motorsports. That being said, I’m going to defend McLaren a little bit here because Red Bull at the beginning of the year did have a sizable gap in performance, which probably had something to do with a little braking mechanism that the FIA later had to clarify was illegal. This has been a sport about bending rules and finding loopholes, but there was a noticeable drop off in performance after the rule “clarification”. McLaren did absolutely fuck themselves as well though.