Oscar Piastri has insisted that the connection along with his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris is “most likely higher than it has been” amid the carefully contested championship battle.
Each McLaren drivers are combating for his or her first drivers’ championship. With three rounds of the 2025 season remaining, which can embrace three grands prix and one dash race, Norris leads the standings by 24 factors over Piastri. Crimson Bull’s Max Verstappen additionally nonetheless poses a menace in third, 25 factors behind Piastri.
McLaren has famously determined to not again a selected driver for the drivers’ championship and has as a substitute maintained a ‘might the perfect man win’ method, even when which means dropping out to the four-time champion.
The one provision given to Piastri and Norris by McLaren is that they have to maintain it clear between them on observe, which they’ve principally adhered to apart from solely a handful of cases, together with the Canadian and Singapore grands prix.
“It’s precisely the identical, or actually, most likely higher than it has been,” Piastri stated about his relationship with Norris throughout an look on the Past The Grid podcast. “It’s higher as a result of we simply know one another extra now. We’ve been collectively for our third yr as team-mates, and we slowly get to know one another increasingly.
Lando Norris, McLaren, Oscar Piastri, McLaren, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes
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“It’s most likely in a greater place than it ever has been, and we’re each the type of people that consider that what occurs on observe stays on observe. Possibly there are short-lived feelings off the observe, however we’re each fairly good at letting issues die down and, once more, leaving issues on the observe.”
He added: “From that facet of issues, it’s actually not modified. The best way we’re nonetheless attempting to get essentially the most out of the staff is strictly the identical.”
A string of robust performances from Norris resulted within the Briton overtaking Piastri within the standings. The Australian driver has didn’t safe a podium end for the reason that Italian Grand Prix.
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