Sky Sports activities F1’s Ted Kravitz has dismissed claims McLaren are favouring Lando Norris on this yr’s title race.
Norris decreased Oscar Piastri’s result in 22 factors after the 2025 F1 Singapore Grand Prix.
The British driver pulled off an aggressive transfer on his teammate on the opening lap of Sunday’s race on the Marina Bay Avenue Circuit.
Norris’ much-talked-about manoeuvre left Piastri fuming, given it resulted involved between the pair.
Piastri felt aggrieved as Norris’ transfer contravened McLaren’s ‘papaya guidelines’.
The stewards noticed no motive to take any motion in opposition to Norris, and McLaren felt it wasn’t essential to intervene because of this.
McLaren’s blasé response has led to strategies that the 2 drivers aren’t handled equally.
Piastri was warned by McLaren at varied races this yr – Austria and Hungary – for trying aggressive strikes on Norris, despite the fact that there was no contact.
Norris’ long-term affiliation with McLaren, having been a part of the workforce since 2019 as a full-time driver, has led to claims the workforce would favor him to win the title relatively than Piastri, who was signed from Alpine.
“No proof” of favouritism
Talking on the most recent episode of the Sky F1 podcast, Kravitz stated he sees “no proof to counsel” McLaren are favouring Norris.
Kravitz is adamant it’s merely all the way down to which driver is acting on monitor, relatively than McLaren treating both driver otherwise.
Lando Norris, McLaren
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Norris failed to complete the Dutch GP as a consequence of a reliability subject, whereas Piastri’s one DNF was brought on by his personal mistake.
“The opposite one which I’ve heard is that as a result of Lando has been there longer, he’s someway the favoured driver as a result of Oscar has solely been there for 3 years. Lando has been there longer,” Kravitz stated.
“They want Lando to win the championship as a result of he’s been there longer. That’s hardly a motive and doesn’t arise both. It’s all the way down to the 2.
“There’s no proof to counsel and nothing that we’ve seen and heaven is aware of… if we had seen it and if we had a way that McLaren need one driver to win over the opposite we’d be speaking about it as a result of we’re journalists and that’s a superb story.
“We’re simply not seeing it. We simply don’t see any of this. It’s all the way down to Melbourne. Melbourne was an attention-grabbing one as Lando received the race, Oscar spun and completed ninth. After that, Oscar bought his stuff collectively after which was stronger in qualifying and closed that hole down.
“It was a 23-point hole wasn’t it that Oscar closed down and moved forward. That was largely as a consequence of getting qualifying proper and Lando was scuffling with the dealing with of the automotive. It simply doesn’t actually arise actually.”
