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McLaren boss sets target for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri

Lando Norris has been talking about his ambitions to win a world championship for a while now and has reassured fans that he would ideally like to do it with McLaren. The team will be glad to hear that their star driver has faith in their ability to become title challengers once again in the

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Zak Brown admits Oscar Piastri needs to remove ‘race rustiness’

McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has revealed that Oscar Piastri’s first target at the Woking-based team is to “get any of that race rustiness off him”, with the Australian driver having not raced a car since the 2021 Formula 2 season finale. McLaren’s newest signing spent the entirety of last season on the bench, with

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Lando Norris being realistic about winning a championship with McLaren

Lando Norris has admitted that he believes it’s “unlikely” that he’ll be able to “win a championship” until the latter end of his current contract with McLaren, which expires at the end of 2025. After fighting amongst the frontrunners for the bulk of 2021, the Woking-based outfit well and truly returned to the midfield in 2022, with the team

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Lando Norris to honour McLaren contract despite Red Bull links

2022 was another successful year for young McLaren star Lando Norris, with the 23-year-old finishing as the best of the rest driver and being the only man outside of the top three teams to score a podium. One thing that does elude the Brit however is his first race win, with Norris being forced to

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McLaren Racing CEO reveals Lando Norris disciplinary issue

Lando Norris was the standout driver outside of the top three teams in 2022, being the only driver that was not in a Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes to score a podium. The Brit continues to improve year after year and has been tipped to become a future world champion, should he be given a

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Zak Brown backs breaks silence on Andretti-Cadillac entry bid

The relationship between Formula 1 and the FIA is reaching an all-time low, as neither party seem to agree on whether a new team should be allowed to join the grid. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has previously shut down Michael Andretti’s attempts to become the 11th team on the grid with Andretti Global, suggesting that no

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McLaren boss demands penalty to prevent Sergio Perez ‘cheating’

A number of Formula 1 bosses have suggested potential solutions of how the sport could deal with drivers who cause “red flags or yellow flags” during qualifying, with McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown calling for lap-times to be deleted. The calls for drivers to be punished for significant qualifying errors comes after suggestions that Sergio

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Zak Brown hails Oscar Piastri for dealing with Alpine threats

Having come through the Alpine driver academy and being the 2021 Formula 2 champion, it looked as if the French team had the perfect replacement for the ageing Fernando Alonso waiting in the wings. The team’s initial plan was to loan Piastri to Williams to gain experience until Alonso’s contract expired, however when the Spaniard

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‘Very serious individual’: McLaren warn Lando Norris about Oscar Piastri

Oscar Piastri’s move to McLaren was certainly not a simple one, as his former employers Alpine clearly believed that their contract with the Australian tied him down to racing for the team in 2023. The French team were rocked when their academy driver publicly rejected their race seat in favour of replacing Daniel Ricciardo at

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Zak Brown opens up on ‘issues’ between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri

The Oscar Piastri saga was the talking point of the summer break in 2022, as the 21-year-old sensationally rejected the chance to replace Fernando Alonso at Alpine in favour of a seat at McLaren, despite being an Alpine academy driver. The Australian will face the daunting task of matching his new teammate Lando Norris when

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