{"id":12653,"date":"2025-06-26T14:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-and-norris-mclaren-free-to-compete-in-f1-no-favors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:10:29","slug":"piastri-and-norris-mclaren-free-to-compete-in-f1-no-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-and-norris-mclaren-free-to-compete-in-f1-no-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri and Norris: McLaren Free to Compete in F1, No Favors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Piastri Denies Seeking Preferential Treatment at McLaren<\/h2>\n\n\nThe Formula 1 leader, Oscar Piastri, has stated that he will not seek preferential treatment in the battle for the title with his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris. Following an incident at the Canadian Grand Prix, both drivers will continue to compete freely.\n\nThe Australian leads Norris by 22 points after winning five of the ten races held so far, with 14 races remaining, including Sunday&#8217;s Austrian Grand Prix.\n\nNorris failed to score points in Montreal after an incident in which he collided with the rear of Piastri&#8217;s car while trying to overtake for fourth place in the race.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are still free to compete, we are still fighting for a championship each. So no, we keep racing and make sure not to get in contact again.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0625%2Fr1511028_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri is 22 points ahead of teammate Lando Norris in the championship.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Oscar Piastri es 22 puntos por delante de su compa\u00f1ero Lando Norris en el campeonato.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nPiastri and Norris, who took the blame for the incident, have already clarified the situation after the race, and there will be no changes to the competition rules.\n\nWhen asked about his &#8220;healthy&#8221; advantage and whether he would seek preferential treatment, Piastri questioned the reporter&#8217;s perspective on the situation.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Your version of healthy is much bigger than mine. I just want, and we all want, a fair chance to try to win both championships. Especially in the drivers&#8217; championship because, ultimately, only one of us can be.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMcLaren has won seven of the ten races, with Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen taking two victories and Mercedes&#8217; George Russell triumphing in Canada.\n\nDespite McLaren&#8217;s success and their 175-point lead over Mercedes in the constructors&#8217; standings, Piastri only leads Verstappen, who is in third place, by 43 points.\n\nCanada was the first race of this season without a McLaren driver on the front row or on the podium, but Piastri was confident that they would be stronger in Austria.\n\nPiastri said the team understands what went wrong in Canada and that they will seek to have a better weekend in Austria, showing confidence in returning to their best form.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piastri Denies Seeking Preferential Treatment at McLaren The Formula 1 leader, Oscar Piastri, has stated that he will not seek preferential treatment in the battle for the title with his McLaren teammate, Lando Norris. Following an incident at the Canadian Grand Prix, both drivers will continue to compete freely. The Australian leads Norris by 22 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[442,436,177,176],"class_list":{"0":"post-12653","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-formula-1","9":"tag-lando-norris","10":"tag-mclaren","11":"tag-oscar-piastri"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}