McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes contact between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Oscar Piastri at some point during the 2025 F🃏1 season is “inevitable”.

The McLaren pair appear to be in a direct head-to-head battle for this year’s F1 world championship after largely๊ dominating the opening four 🦄races of the season.

Norris won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, while Piastri claimed impressive victories in China and Bahrain to close to within three points of his tea🅠mmate in the drivers’ st🌊andings.

So far, Norris and Piastri have kept thing🃏s clean on track. But speaking ahead of qualifying at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, where McLaren once again appear to be the team to beat, Brown admitted he is expecting a collision between his drivers.

"I think it’s definitely a matter of when, than if. You have two racing drivers, whetheꦯr in the same team or different team, that are next to each other for 24 races, someone’s going to lock a brake,” Brown told Sky Sports F1.

"So, I’m kind of looking forward to getting it over with because I don’t think it’s going to be anywhere near as exciting as ꦰeverybody thinks. I think it will be a racing incident when that day comes. I think it’s inevitable.

"They’re two great characters. Neither of them are hotheads, so we’re not worried abou🐽t it, and to a certain extent, kind of looking forward to ꦏjust getting it out of the way."

McLaren praised for ‘papaya wrecks’ approach

Brown’s approach has been praised by Sky S🧸ports 🐼F1’s Martin Brundle.

"It's incre𝓡dibly smart what they are doing,” Brundle said.

"What Zak is saying there is that 'papaya rules' will become 'papaya wrecks' at some point. [He's saying] 'we've got two incredibly fast drivers with a potential championship-winning car and it's go༺ing to get rough at some point’.

"What that is doing🌞 is managing down so the team doesn't go into meltdown, the drivers, the drivers' entourages, and indeed the media.

"He what he's saying is 'we know it's going to happen, we'll manage i✤t when it does turn up, but don't all overact🔴 to it’."

McLaren lead the construc✅tors’ world championship by 58 points as they look to defend their title from 202🃏4.