McLaren will update their team orders at e🐓very race, Zak Brown insists, and team principal Andrea Stella will make the crucial call.

‘Papaya rules’ have come under the microscope as McLaren overtook Red Bull in the constructors’ championship, and Lando Norris closes in on Max Verstappeꦐn at the top of the drivers’.

McLaren do not recognise eꦐither Norris nor teammate Oscar Piastri as their No1 driver - however have hinted at a change of policy, with the big prizes up for grabs.

CEO Brown has now insisted the specific orders will be aဣmen𓆉ded at every grand prix.

“I was watching something that Ron Dennis was talking about,” he said to Sky Sports. “It was the team’s job to win the constructors’ championship, and 𒀰the driver’s job to win the drivers’ championship. That’s what we’re doing.

⛄“Anything we can now do to help Lando, we’ll do that, whether it’s strategically…

“We don’t want to co🅠mpromise Oscar’s results because he’s having an awesome season, and a battle of his own.

“If there are thin🎃gs we can do to support Lando, that’s what we’ll do.

“We’re taking it on a race-by-race basis.

“We’ve got two great driv𒊎ers capable of winning races. It’s a fine line.

“Papay♕a rules are: know who your teammate is, help your teammate, race your teammate hard but cleanly.”

Must Piastri let Norris through?

Brown was asked if McLaren were leading tꩲhe Singapore Grand Prix 1-2, with Piastri in front, whet♓her he’d be asked to concede victory to Norris.

Brown answered: “That will be Andrea’s call.

“Handing off a race win is a pretty difficult thing to do. It’s a big ask of a grand൲ prix driver.

“Lando wants to win the championship, if he can, the right w🌜ay.

“If Oscar g🔯oes out and ear🌄ns it, I’m not sure Lando wants to inherit a victory that way, anyway.”

Norris is 59 points adrℱift of Versཧtappen but is currently in the faster car.

Piastri, fourth in the standings, is 💫91 points away from leader Verstappen.

Brown insists Piastri rema🍸ins a title contender: “ౠMathematically, definitely.

“The gap between Lando and Max will requir🐠e awesome weekends, and back luck.

“One of the ch𝔉allenges is that we’re not looking at a driver who is too far back from La💞ndo.

“T꧟hat’s ꦰwhy we’ll take it one race at a time. What are the circumstances?

“If Max has had a DNF so it’s a big points haul, that’s one scenario. Time starts tic♐king, that’s another scenario.”