McLaren’s dream season took one other dramatic flip beneath the lights of Singapore on Sunday, because the crew sealed the Constructors’ Championship for the second straight 12 months but in addition witnessed one more flashpoint between its two drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
George Russell delivered a dominant lights-to-flag victory for Mercedes from pole place, with Max Verstappen ending second and Norris finishing the rostrum in third.
Piastri adopted carefully in fourth, however beneath the crew celebrations, rigidity is clearly brewing. The Australian by no means had the tempo to mount a critical problem to his teammate and was hampered additional by a gradual pit cease that added to his frustrations.
The defining second got here firstly. Norris, launching from fifth, made an aggressive transfer, squeezing previous each Kimi Antonelli and Piastri.
In doing so, he made gentle contact along with his teammate, forcing Piastri broad. The 24-year-old was fast to voice his anger over crew radio.
