McLaren CEO Zak Brown has been told he has “got no ch⛦oice” with team orders decision-making between his drivers.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Oscar Piastri was left frustrated at the first race of 2025 on home soil in Australia when the onus was shifted to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris, who won the grand prix.

Piastri span out in Australia but responded by winning the F1 Chinese Grand Prix from pole position.

On both occasions, McLaren were spared a difficult call between two 🍌drivers who both wanted victory in the fi💛nal laps.

But if their domination continueღs, Norris and Piastri’s c♌ompetitive spirit must be managed.

“Zak is a disrupter. He will relish the battle betw⛦ee♊n those guys,” F1 Nation host Tom Clarkson claimed.

“As long as the gap is big enough in the constructors’, he w🐼ill let them get on with it.”

Alex Jacques said: 🌞“He’s got no choice. Try managing them - how’s that going to go down?

“We know an order has gone down badly.

“Unless in circumstances where it makes sense… Oscar has proven [in China] that he can stick ahead of Lando so it w👍ill be eജxtremely difficult, given how closely matched they are.

“I know Lando had a brake problem but, for the first nine r꧙aces of the year before we get to the flexi-wing change, it’s the McL🐼aren show with Lando and Oscar.

“We have not seen the extent of it. I thinꦬk they are up the road, at the moment.”

Clarkson added: “I thought it was significant that Zak was standing next to Oscar’s car. After the🐓 frustration fro෴m Oscar’s camp in Melbourne, he made a public show of support.

“But it’s the start of a jugglin𒉰g act he must manage.”

Piastri was signed up to a new McLaren contract which reportedly put him on level terms wiꦰth Norris’ salary ahead of the 2025 F1 season.

They have ⛦each won one of the opening two grands prix. Norris leads the drivers’ standings and McLaren lead the constructor🌱s’.

How big is McLaren’s advantage?

McLaren established themselves as having F1’s f♌astest car at the midway p🍷oint of 2024 and have hit the ground running this season.

Clarkson asked: “How big an advantage do we think McLaren have at this stage? I don’t think♏ we have seen the extent of their advantage.

“Tyre wear is where they are brilliant. And the strength of the hard true [🦩in China[ meant there was no managing from anyone.

“But the moment we go to a racꦓe track, like Su𝔍zuka, which is much more demanding on tyres, we will see the true extent of the advantage which I expect to grow.”

However, it was pointed out that Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull have also not yet shown their full 🥂performance.

Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton claimed pole, then won the sprint race, in China. Merceꩵdes’ George Russell has been on the podium in Australia and China. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen wa🎐s on the podium in Australia.

“We haven’t seen the true extent of other teams yet,” Laura Winter 🎃said.

“We had a wet race inꦛ Melbourne with limited to no dry꧅ running. We then had a sprint weekend with one grand prix distance to understand a hard tyre on a track which demolishes the front-left.

“We now go to Suzuka, a different track entirely.

“Look back to last season - by Race 5, we’d written it off as Red Bull winni𓆏ng the constructors’ and Max Verstappen sailing away with the drivers’. But he didn’t go unchallenged.

“💙It’s really early doors to say ‘McLaren have won’.

“I know this is a year where ꩲcar development is less, because of 🌞the nod to 2026 [the new F1 regulations]. But equally McLaren’s development will stop. There will be convergence.”