Zak Brown has a plan already in place for “when” his McLaren drivers clash.

The McLaren CEO insists it is inevitable that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Oscar Piastri and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris will have a contentious moment o💟n-track this F1 season.

Piastri and Norris lead the championship, ah🦄ead of Red𝐆 Bull’s Max Verstappen, after five rounds.

McLaren also possessﷺ the fastest car and aꦕre top of the constructors’ championship.

But Brown knows it cannot always be plain sailing and is prepared foꦛr when Piastri and Norris get their elbows out.

McLaren plan for Lando Norris v Oscar Piastri incident

“The good o꧑f the team is to try and get 1-2s,ꦗ” he told Channel 4.

“It’s up to them t♛o decide🐻 who is P1 and who is P2. They are free to race.

“You haven’t seen that reall🗹y epic battle yet. I thin🐬k it’s a matter of time.

“They will race each other cleanly and hard.

“It’s not🔯 ꦫ‘if’ something happens, it’s ‘when’ something happens…

“It’🔜s okay, they are racing h▨ard, they are strong competitors.

“We have already d𝓰iscussed it. All those people who want to see something exciting happen? It wil𒅌l be a non-event.

“We will talk it through, learn from it. You can’t have two drivers like we have, and not🌄 expect some excitement from time to time.”

Last week🗹end in Saudi Arabia, the McLaren drivers experienced vastly different fortunes.

Norris crashed in qualifying, leaving himself 10th on the starting grid. Although he somewhat rescued his mistake with a Pꦜ4 grand prix finish, he lost the lead of the drivers’ standings.

Pꦰiastri now leads the championship for the first time in his career after tying Norris’ tally of F1 grand prix wins.

Piastri has won two grands prix consecutively but the next outing is in Miami, the scene of Norris’ season-changing win a year a🅰go.

McLaren were criticised for their strategy last year when Norris emerged as a threat to Vertappen’s drivers’ ꦺtitle.

They opt not to name a No1 driver, a method also used by Ferr꧂ari - unlike Verstappen a⭕t Red Bull.

That meant Norris ൲was o🔯ccasionally not prioritised last season by McLaren, above Piastri, when he needed the points to challenge Verstappen.

That strategy evolved througꦜhout 2024 but, this season, McLaren entered already with the best car and the highest expectations.