McLaꦗren is encouraging Osca🎃r Piastri and Lando Norris to speak openly and “not leave anything in the back of the mind” to avoid any internal friction during the 2025 Formula 1 season.

McLaren’s dominant start to the new F1 campaign has made Piastri and Norris the main protagonists for the drivers’ title, with reigning four-time champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen reduced to an outside contender in an unpredictable Red Bull RB21.

Thi🅠s has led to concerns about a breakdown in the relationship between Piastri and Norris, which could hurt McLaren’s prospects and potentially allow Verstappen to claw his way back into the fight.

However, the Woking-based squad is satisfied with how Piastri and Norris have behaved both on and track so far, with team principal And🍎rea Stella insisting that they are both following the so-called ‘papaya rules’.

“ꦯThe [pre-race] br📖iefing is not getting tougher,” Stella said. “The conversations are the same that we always have.

“Obviously, when the two drivers start ne༒xt to each other and there are 800 metres to corner one, you might have t🍎o reiterate every detail of the way we go racing together.

“But so far I can only be very grateful to Lando and Oscar who have approached this internal competition with a great sense ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚof responsibility and pretty much sticking to the letter to what our racing principles and approach are.”

The dynamic between the two McLaren drivers was briefly in the spotlight during qualifying for🌊 the Spanish Grand Prix, when Norris happened to leave the pitlane just behind Piastri and followed him throughout the warm-up lap.

This resulted in 168澳洲幸运5官方🌠开奖结果历史:Norris 🅠getting a brief slipstream from Piastri exiting the final corner as he sta♛rted his first flying lap in Q3.

Piastri, who slowe🧜d down and pulled to the side immediately after crossing the finish line, later remarked Norris’ supposed tactic as “cheeky” on the team radio.

But Stella was quick to play down the incident, stressing that McLaren aꦓctively encourages its drivers to speak up and express any concerns directly.

“It was a minor situation,” said Stella. We always tell our drive꧅rs 'Don't leave anything in the back of your mind. Anything, throw it out, say what you think’.

“🔯In this case, Oscar's comment was to highlight a situation that we didn't discuss before.

“In itself, it's not anything too controversial, but we sort of did not discuss tha𓆏t before and we don't want to surprise our drivers with a situation that we didn't discuss before.  

“So a little bit 𝔉to take on for the team rather than for the drivers, we have to do some more homework ⛦and be ready even more for the coming races which surely will be interesting.”