Norris and Piastri ‘will not properly fall out’

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will “not properly fall out,” according to McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown.

After Norris ran into Piastri in Canada in June, Brown, the company’s chief executive officer, predicted that the pair would “swap paint again at some point.”

He continued, “I don’t believe they’ll fall out because of the communication, trust, and respect we all have for one another.”

We have two wonderful people, they say. The challenge is our passion. I’m anticipating them to compete against one another.

This season, Piastri has won six races while Norris has five, and they have won 11 of the previous 14 races.

On August 29 and 31, Brown and the Dutch Grand Prix will resume racing, with Brown saying that he anticipates that the game will continue to be fair.

Has your team-mate ever irritated you in any way, as I’ve said to both of them individually when I had the chance? Never’. And that is what both said, “Brown added.

There is therefore brewing competition. There is no sign of tension in our household. I’m sure there will be more tension as the championship develops, but like Montreal, I’m happy we got it out of the way because Lando owned it and Oscar recognized that it was wrong.

Brown expressed his “very confident it won’t be deliberate” when he said he was “very confident it won’t happen because he expects the two drivers to collide once more.

He continued, “I’m certain they’re never going to run each other off the rails, and that’s where you get into bad blood.”

And he claimed that McLaren would handle any tension in the same way they have handled the drivers’ relationship so far.

He said, “We’ll deal with it if something bubbles up,” he said. And how we operate, which is a transparent, deal-with-it immediately [manner] approach.

When you’ve witnessed fights between other team members, it seems like from the outside, and you kind of wonder, “have they jumped on that, or are they just kind of letting it build up?”

If we think anything is bubbling up in the balloon but haven’t seen any, we’ll take the air out right away.

Because both McLaren and McLaren have long-term contracts, Brown said it was crucial for them to stay in good terms.

Despite being 97 points behind Piastri, Brown thinks Max Verstappen has a chance of winning the title even though he is still in with a lead over Piastri.

However, he claimed that he and team principal Andrea Stella will talk about how to deal with the unavoidable situation where one McLaren driver wins the title while the other loses it if the championship is clearly clearly between just the two McLaren drivers.

According to Brown, “Only one can win the championship, and they both can smell it,” so I’m sure it’ll be difficult on the one who doesn’t win, assuming the other does.

“We’ll just sit down and actually have a conversation and say, “Right, one of you is going to win, and it’s going to be the best day of your life, one of you is going to lose, and you’re going to be devastated,” “How do you want us to handle that, and how do we want us to act?”

Because that’s how we think, it comes back to thinking about our people, we’ll be very considerate about that.

Brown refuted the claim that the narrative “almost” Norris was mentally more fragile than Piastri because he thought it was “untrue.”

“Lando’s open, he kind of wears his emotions on his sleeve, so to speak,” Brown said. He’s in a great place, but everyone’s unique. He’s never been in a better state, in my opinion. He does a fantastic job.

After a few victories slipped away last year, he compared the current commentary on Norris to a previous one, which some observers claimed he was unable to take the lead.