McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has confirmed that the crew shouldn’t be going to vary its technique within the drivers’ championship after securing the constructors’ title.
After third and fourth-place finishes on the Singapore Grand Prix, the Woking outfit took the victory within the constructors’ championship with six race weekends remaining within the season. This led some to query whether or not McLaren would alter its administration type of drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who’re each combating for his or her first drivers’ championship victory.
McLaren has to date chosen to not again one driver for the title however has as an alternative allowed them each to race freely below ‘papaya guidelines’, with the proviso that they maintain on-track battles clear.
Aside from the Canadian Grand Prix, the place Norris crashed out throughout an intense battle together with his team-mate, the drivers have managed to maintain it comparatively clear. However after a lunge from Norris to take third from Piastri in Singapore, tensions may nicely be rising.
Following questions on whether or not the Brown-led crew would now again one driver for the drivers’ title, Brown has confirmed that the crew shouldn’t be going to vary its technique regardless of the specter of four-time champion Max Verstappen.
“Whereas we’d prefer it to solely come all the way down to our two guys, Max continues to be very a lot within the recreation. I feel what has been key’s that the crew have remained so centered but in addition very humble,” Brown defined to McLaren.
Zak Brown, McLaren CEO
Picture by: Erik Junius
“So, we’re simply going to maintain doing what we’re doing. Our technique isn’t going to vary as a result of we’ve received the Constructors’, we’re going to strategy the remaining race weekends in the identical method we’ve approached each one earlier than it.”
He added: “That is what we’re right here to do: win races and win Championships. And we could not be hungrier.”
Heading into the ultimate quarter of the season, Piastri leads the standings with 336 factors, with a 22-point lead over Norris. Verstappen follows Norris in third with 273 factors – 41 factors behind the British driver and 63 factors behind the championship chief.
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