As Oscar Piastri Tows Lando Norris, when Will McLaren's F1 Title Rivals Stop Playing Nice?

Mark Hughes: Red Bull's Monza sweet spot had rivals in disbelief

Well, which was the bigger story? The fact that Max Verstappen and Red Bull were genuinely faster than McLaren over a full Formula 1 race distance at the Italian Grand Prix? Or that McLaren asked Oscar Piastri to surrender second place to title rival Lando Norris after the latter lost the position to a four-second delay when pitting a lap after Piastri?Piastri acquiesced - just as he had in qualifying, when he'd agreed to help Norris out of the …

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Tow Today, War Tomorrow: Will McLaren's Truce Survive Monza?

Monza served the kind of team “friendship” that looks sweet on Saturday and spicy by Sunday: one papaya car offered a helpful breeze, the other grabbed prime real estate, and somewhere a very fast rocket ship grinned; now picture Turn 1 when the favors bill lands and the red crowd gets loud — do the white gloves stay on, or does someone keep the slipstream and mumble “sorry, mate” at 220 mph? If you enjoy polite drama, quick politics, and two dr…

Close competition is "not a huge shock for us," claims Piastri

Having qualified third on the grid, championship leader Oscar Piastri claims that it was "not a huge shock for us" to see rivals close in on McLaren over a single flying lap.

As Piastri tows Norris, when will McLaren's F1 title rivals stop playing nice?

"If you can help Lando, if you can tow Lando up to Turn 4, but just make sure we don't impede - gap three," Piastri's race engineer Tom Stallard requested at the end of Q2.Oscar Piastri had just finished his final lap to book a place in Q3, while Lando Norris was still under big pressure to deliver.In what he admitted had been a messy qualifying until that point, Norris had to abort an ...Keep reading

As Oscar Piastri tows Lando Norris, when will McLaren's F1 title rivals stop playing nice?

After Oscar Piastri helped Lando Norris with a tow in F1 Italian Grand Prix qualifying, here's what McLaren thinks about its drivers' sportsmanship and how it will react if it stops