Tensions between title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri reached a new high as their McLaren team clinched the constructors’ championship at the Singapore Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
Norris slid into Piastri in passing him at the first corner at the start of the race, leading the Australian to claim it was “not fair” the team did not ask them to reverse positions.<\/p>\n
George Russell took his second victory of the season from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who spent the closing laps holding off an attack from Norris.<\/p>\n
Piastri closed in on the pair in the closing stages after being delayed by a slow pit stop but had to settle for fourth.<\/p>\n
Piastri’s championship lead over Norris was cut to 22 points with six races to go. Verstappen has also closed in and is 63 adrift of the lead.<\/p>\n
The key stories in a race that tested the drivers to the limit in temperatures of 30C and humidity of 72% after rain before the start were:<\/p>\n
The internal argument at McLaren after contact between their drivers revived scrutiny over their approach to fairness in the title battle<\/p>\n
McLaren’s constructors’ title a reward for their strong season<\/p>\n
A revival for Russell and Mercedes<\/p>\n
More to follow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions between title rivals Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri reached a new high as their McLaren team clinched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-191651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}