Andreas Seidl has defended McLaren after a Helmut Marko jibe over a radio message to Lando Norris during Portuguese Grand Prix qualifying. In Q3 at Portimao, Max Verstappen was on his final flying lap without a time on the board having exceeded track limits on his previous attempt. The Dutchman was coming up behind Norris, who was getting ready for his last effort, when the British driver received a message over his radio telling him not to ‘do Verstappen a favour’ by giving him a tow, because he was under pressure to set a time. Red Bull advisor Marko, working for an Austrian-based TV station, later claimed that rather than being in McLaren’s own interests, the message had been...
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