CODE Sports<\/a> of the battle between Piastri and Norris.<\/p>\n\u201cI think at some stage it is even in danger that they lose the drivers\u2019 world championship because they fight between them and obviously Max Verstappen, Red Bull make a good step forward in the last races, you must say.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mercedes is strong, obviously the Mercedes cannot catch them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the Mercedes could take points away from them like they did in Singapore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked which driver should be favoured, Steiner said Piastri is the \u201clogical choice\u201d given he holds the championship lead over Norris. <\/p>\n
Guenther Steiner believes Oscar Piastri should be given favourtism.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
FERRARI FEELING HEAT AS HORNER RUMOUR EMERGES <\/p>\n
The tension at McLaren is likely to be matched at Ferrari after a fraught few days of news media reports suggesting that the team is in disarray and lining up former Red Bull boss Christian Horner as a possible successor to under-pressure team chief Fred Vasseur.<\/p>\n
Without a win this year, Ferrari and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, in particular, badly need a result to banish the blues – the Briton having gone 18 races without a top-three finish as he returns to a favourite circuit where he has won five times.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we haven\u2019t maximised the potential of our package in the last few races,\u201d said Vasseur, dismissing talk of internal strife. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut the team is united and fully determined to turn things around.\u201d <\/p>\n
Mercedes will also be hunting success after George Russell\u2019s triumph in Singapore and the belated confirmation that they are retaining an unchanged line-up, with Italian teenager Kimi Antonelli alongside Briton Russell, next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Days after celebrating the retention of their constructors\u2019 world championship title, McLaren\u2019s duelling duo of series leader Oscar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2095,1724,64,14017,63,689,961,132424,132227,1199,18241,132426,14210,817,813,816,3738,13276,3875,2105,3552,132213,90117,13207,132431,10115,1737,823,132429,825,132423,2041,2067,677,122764,765,22295,22305,942,2812,85,22764,132427,132428,3370,43345,132425,2614,12000,2086,132430,2836,9657],"class_list":["post-216748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-america","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-austin","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-azerbaijan","tag-champ-whacks","tag-chaos-looms","tag-christian-horner","tag-clive-rose","tag-consecutive-podium-finishes","tag-driver-market","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-fox-sports","tag-fred-vasseur","tag-george-russell","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-guenther-steiner","tag-hysteria-exposedpossible","tag-italian-teenager","tag-jacques-villeneuve","tag-jacques-villneuve","tag-kimi-antonelli","tag-lando-norris","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-logical-choice","tag-max-verstappen","tag-news-media-reports","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-oceania","tag-oscar-watches","tag-run-home","tag-series-leader","tag-seven-time-champion","tag-singapore","tag-south-eastern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sprint-race","tag-sprint-race-win","tag-stunning-late-season-resurgence","tag-texas","tag-title-contenders","tag-under-pressure-team-chief","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-western-asia","tag-world-championship","tag-world-championship-title","tag-world-title","tag-zak-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216748","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=216748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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