Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been battling it out on the high of the Method One leaderboard this season, however the McLaren duo have proven they’ve one another’s backs
Lando Norris leapt to Oscar Piastri’s defence on the Singapore Grand Prix after his McLaren team-mate was absent from the rostrum celebrations. The pair are fierce opponents on the observe and have been locked in battle for supremacy within the Method 1 standings.
Regardless of their on-circuit rivalry, the McLaren duo have demonstrated their mutual help on quite a few events. Group boss Zak Brown appeared on the Excessive Efficiency Podcast to debate an incident between the 2 drivers.
Piastri was nowhere to be seen throughout a staff celebration on the Singapore GP following Norris’s third-place end and McLaren’s Constructors’ Championship triumph. Detailing what occurred, Brown stated: “That is how sturdy I feel we’re as a staff as a result of we additionally know after we see one thing, we’ll convey it to one another’s consideration.
“In Singapore, we clinch the constructors’ championship. Lando’s on the rostrum. Oscar’s within the media pen, which is down the highway. Method 1, impromptu, says get the staff up on the rostrum. Very first thing, after we received up there, Lando and I went, ‘Man, Oscar’s not up right here. That is going to look horrible.’
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“However like we all know how that occurred. He is within the media pen; this wasn’t one thing deliberate. So, we stand up there and do it. And the very first thing Lando and I stated was, ‘Ah man, like, the place’s Oscar?’ However in fact, the media narrative was Oscar’s boycotting; we did not need him there. And it was like, ‘What are you speaking about?'”
Norris’ defence of Piastri demonstrated that, regardless of their on-track rivalry, they share a mutual respect as a part of McLaren’s partnership. Brown went on to recall an occasion the place Piastri confirmed his personal courtesy in direction of the staff.
He stated: “After which once I was thanking Oscar on the radio, I did not see the place he was on the observe, and he was in parc ferme within the means of shutting down the automotive. So once I was thanking him, it appeared like he unplugged, like he hung up the telephone on me. It isn’t what occurred. I did not even discover it.
“Oscar observed it. And went, ‘Hey, ensure that Zak is aware of, I did not hear him.’ So like, we received one another’s backs. We care what one another thinks.
“And so Oscar, once I went, ‘Hey, ensure that Oscar is aware of that is how this occurred on the rostrum.’ And he went, ‘Yeah, I figured it out.’ After which he sort of reciprocated, and stated, ‘Hey, ensure that Zak is aware of I did not dangle up the telephone.'”
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