McLaren CEO Zak Bro🎃wn has been told he has “got no choice” with team orders decision-ma🏅king between his drivers.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri was left frustrated at the first race of 2025 on home soil in Australia when the onus was shifted to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris, who won the grand prix.

Piastri span out in Australia but responded by winning the F1 Chinese Grand Prix from pole position.

On both occasions, McLaren were spared a difficult call between two drivers who both wanted vict🍸oꦡry in the final laps.

But if their domination continues, Norris and Piastri’s competitive spi๊rit must be managed.

“Zak is a disrupter. He wil꧂l relish the battle between those guys,” F1 Nation host Tom Clarkson claimed.

“As long as the gap is big enough in the constructors’, he will letℱ tꩵhem get on with it.”

Alex Jacques said: “He’s got no choice. Try managing them - how’s that🌃 going to go down?

“We know an order has gone down badly.

“Unless in circumstances where it makes sense… Oscar has proven [in China] that he can stick a✃head of Lando so it will be extremely difficult, given how closely matched they are.

“I know Lando had a brake problem but, for the first nine races of the year before we get to the flexi-wing change, it’s the McLaren show wit൩h Lando and Oscar.

“We ha🌟ve not seen the extent﷽ of it. I think they are up the road, at the moment.”

Clarkson adde♓d: “I thought it was significant that Zak was standing next to Oscar’s car. After the frustration from Oscar’s camp in Melbourne, he made a public show of support.

“But it’s the sta✃rt of a ju🔴ggling act he must manage.”

Piastri was signe💮d up to a new McLaren contract which reportedly put him on level terms with Norris’ salary ahead of the 2025 F1 season.

They have eacᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚh won one of the opening two grands prix. Norris leads the drivers’ standings and McLaren lead the constructors’.

How big is McLaren’s advantage?

McLaren established themselves as having F1’s fa🃏stest car at the midway point of 2024 and hav🅷e hit the ground running this season.

Clarkson asked: “How big an advantage do we think McLaren have at this stage? I don’t think we have seen t♈he extent of their advantage.

“Tyre wear is where they are brilliant. And the strength of the🐬 hard true [in China[ meant there was no managing from anyone.

“But the moment we go to a race track, like Suzuka, w🎀hich is much more demanding on tyr🐎es, we will see the true extent of the advantage which I expect to grow.”

However, it was pointed out that Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull have also not yet shownဣ their full performance.

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton claimed pole, then won the sprint race, in China𒉰. Mercedes’ George Russell has been on the podium in Australia and China. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was on the podium in Australia.

“We haven’t seen the true extent of other teams yet,” L❀aura Winter said.

“We had a wet race in Melbourne with limited to no dry run𒁏ning. We then had a sprint weekend with one grand prix distance to understand a hard tyre on a track which demolishes the front-left.

“We now go to Suzuka, a different track entirely.

“Look back to last season - by Race 5, we’d written it off as Red Bull winning the constructo🌟rs’ and Max Verstappen sailing away with the drivers’. But he didn’t go unchalleng🦋ed.

“It’s really early do𝔉ors to say ‘McLaren have won’.

“I know this is a year where car development is less, because of the nod to 2026 [the new F1 regulation🎃s]. But equally McLaren’s development will stop. There will be convergence.”