Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been tipped as future F1 World Champions by their McLaren bosses.
Closing the gap to Max Verstappen to run second and third on the track, McLaren’s toughest task lies ahead and no, it’s not developing the car.
Feelings of missing out when finishing P3, his third successive grand prix podium, are a notable difference from McLaren’s early-season form and frustrations when points were hard to come by. Stella is well aware that any dissent needs to be nipped in the bud now while Norris and Piastri are racing for points because down the line, when potentially bigger prices are at stake, so too are bigger mistakes.
Arriving on the grid in 2019, Norris was lauded as a future World Champion, a sentiment McLaren CEO Zak Brown has uttered several times. “I want to do it with McLaren, first of all, it’s just a lot more special to do it that way,” Norris said earlier this year. “I have a contract for the next two years so I do want to do it with McLaren. I believe they can, otherwise, I wouldn’t have signed the contract in the first place.”
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