Piastri: “My rivalry with Norris is not a Third World War”

2025: the year of McLaren The 2025 season saw two different moments at McLaren, one favorable to Oscar Piastri and the other more positive to his teammate Lando Norris, who with a series of results managed to win the world title. In the first half of the championship, the Australian had put together reassuring performances to occupy the championship lead, only to then make mistakes or fail to repeat himself from the Azerbaijan GP onwards, even losing second place in the championship standings to Max Verstappen. The episodes Regardless of what the final results were, the duel between the two drivers of the Woking team gave rise to an all-McLaren rivalry for the championship, made even more heated by episodes such as the contact that occurred in the Canadian GP, ​​by the rules of conduct imposed by the team on the drivers (better known as ‘Papaya Rules’), or even by the team order asked of Piastri during the Italian GP, ​​a fact that had made one think of some favoritism towards Norris. The rivalry A question, the one about internal rivalry, to which Piastri responded in an interview with Quad Lock, also referring to all the rumors that have circulated about the relationship between the two: “The media plays a huge role in F1, like it or not – he explained – there have certainly been difficult questions, difficult interviews and complicated moments. For me it is quite simple to distinguish between the story that the media tries to sell and what is really happening. There have been some difficult moments behind closed doors, but it has not been so catastrophic or of World War III as some media like to describe it.”