McLaren’s internal scrap among Canadian GP lessons

THE crash that McLaren dreaded, but that everyone else was waiting for, will not change the team’s approach, even though Lando Norris lost valuable points in Canada.

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Although history suggests it is unwise to allow teammates to compete for wins and drivers’ titles — a lesson McLaren learned notably with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna in 1989 and 1990 — the team’s current management believe in their approach.

AFP Sport looked at three things we learned from Sunday’s intriguing Canadian Grand Prix, which George Russell won for Mercedes ahead of Max Verstappen’s Red Bull, reshaping the landscape of the championship..

McLaren’s internal scrap for glory

Tough talks are expected in Wok-ing this week after Sunday’s 67th-lap crash at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, when Norris accidentally drove into his McLaren teammate Oscar Piastri, but they are unlikely to prevent more skirmishes as the pair battle on in Aus-tria and beyond.

Piastri, whose fourth place extended his championship lead to 22 points over Norris, once again demonstrated cool pragmatism, while his teammate slipped into a mist of misjudgement and ended up pointless.

“I made a fool of myself,” the Briton admitted.