This season Piastri is in another league compared to his team-mate. The incident in Canada was a direct result of Lando making yet another mistake. McLaren need to prioritise Oscar for the rest of the season, surely? – Anon To describe Piastri as “in another league” from Norris this year is a bit of a...
Taking a step back from the immediacy of the drama, the bigger concern may be what it says about Norris and his state of mind – and raise questions as to what to do about it. This has not been an easy season for Norris so far. He was very much McLaren’s leading driver last...
Lando Norris crashed out of the Canadian Grand Prix in a collision with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri. Norris hit the back of Piastri’s car as he attempted a passing move on the pit straight with four laps to go as George Russell took Mercedes’ first victory of the season with a controlled drive. The Briton...
Norris is talking a matter of days after he likened Verstappen’s controversial collision with Mercedes’ George Russell in the Spanish Grand Prix to something out of the Mario Kart game. That comment was made in the green room before the podium while chatting to Piastri and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. He did not want to expand...
Should McLaren be focusing on one driver for the title? We have seen other teams be dominant at the beginning of a season and slip back later on. – Luke This debate is an interesting one. On one side, teams often receive criticism when they impose team orders and favour one driver over another. On...
It left him lacking grip at the restart to those around him and resulted in a madcap, almost unbelievable, series of incidents. Verstappen almost lost his car when he had a massive wobble coming out of the fast final corner as the race restarted with five laps to go. Leclerc pulled alongside on the straight,...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri set a stunning pole position from team-mate Lando Norris at the Spanish Grand Prix. The Australian beat Norris by 0.209 seconds, vaulting himself ahead of the Briton -who had been faster on the first runs in final qualifying but made an error on his last lap. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was third...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri won for the fourth time in six races this year as he beat team-mate Lando Norris in an action-packed Miami Grand Prix. Both McLaren drivers fought intense battles with early leader Max Verstappen’s Red Bull as they moved up to the front of the field. Piastri, who started fourth, drove a race...
The race started on a wet track, after a 28-minute delay because of the poor conditions. Piastri made a better launch than Antonelli, and was alongside the Mercedes on the approach to the first corner, the position already won. Antonelli claimed Piastri had pushed him off, but in fact ran wide off track on his...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri set the pace in practice at the Miami Grand Prix as a crash for Briton Oliver Bearman ended the session early. Piastri was 0.356 seconds quicker than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in second place with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen third as the teams prepared for sprint qualifying later on Friday. Bearman lost control...
Why do the regulations change just when the field is beginning to close up in competitiveness? The new regs for 2026 seem like a lottery for teams who either nail or fail them, leading to a dominant team and those lagging behind. Stable regs = competitive racing. – Matt F1 has always changed its regulations...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took his third win of the year and with it the world championship lead at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Piastri benefited from a penalty for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to take control of the race and score his second win in a week. Verstappen was given a five-second penalty for illegally...
What’s the fascination with noise and the desire to return to thunderous noise volumes? I went to a GP in the 1990s and the noise was unbearably loud. Why is it held in such high esteem? It’s not like the present engines are EV quiet. – Ash This is a very pertinent and perceptive question...
Combining consistent speed with the mental solidity and racing decisiveness he has always shown makes Piastri a formidable rival who, psychologically at least, will be a tough nut to crack. As McLaren team principal Andrea Stella put it in Bahrain: “There’s no noise in Oscar’s head, which is a very useful characteristic in Formula 1,...
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri took a controlled, dominant victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix to close on team-mate Lando Norris in the world championship. The Australian was serene in the lead, calmly keeping himself out of reach of his rivals, as Mercedes’ George Russell held off an assault from the second McLaren of Lando Norris for...