Overview

• Oscar Piastri holds a nine-point lead over Lando Norris in the drivers’ standings at the mid-season break
• Team CEO Zak Brown confirmed the squad will ask each driver how they want the eventual champion celebrated and the runner-up acknowledged
• McLaren’s policy of strategic freedom lets Piastri and Norris choose their own race plans, highlighted by Norris’s one-stop win in Hungary versus Piastri’s two-stop approach
• Brown cited lessons from the 2007 intra-team clash at McLaren but expressed confidence in his drivers’ maturity to avoid destructive incidents
• With a 299-point advantage over Ferrari, McLaren is all but assured of securing the 2025 constructors’ championship