Chequered Flag Extra: McLaren Team Orders & Eyes To The Lights

F1: Chequered Flag

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Harry Benjamin and the BBC’s F1 correspondent Andrew Benson reflect further on the story dominating Formula 1 following the Italian Grand Prix – McLaren team orders. Should they have swapped Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris? We answer your questions and ask whether the move was fair. Plus, we go behind the scenes on a race gantry, finding out what it is like to control the lights for a grand prix, hearing from F1’s official race starter, Rebecca Lee.

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0:44.3	Yet more twists and turns in the title fight.
0:47.5	And we're still getting over that rather intriguing Italian Grand Prix.
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0:55.7	Grand Prix review, I suggest you do that now and then come back to this one. Coming up on the show
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1:07.4	on the grid as a driver, but the literal process of the person who presses
1:12.0	the buttons that control the lights. That's the FIA's Rebecca Lee.
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