Overview

• Oscar Piastri holds a nine-point lead over teammate Lando Norris as the season resumes, and McLaren tops the constructors’ standings on 559 points
• Max Verstappen has scored just two victories compared with the McLaren pair’s 11 but stays mathematically alive in the drivers’ championship
• Andrea Stella warned that Ferrari, Mercedes and Verstappen pose significant threats in the second half of the campaign
• Zak Brown reaffirmed McLaren’s no-team-orders policy and said Norris and Piastri maintain a tension-free rivalry
• Former F1 driver Johnny Herbert praised Lando Norris’s “mental shift” after his Hungarian win, citing improved consistency under pressure