McLaren want drivers to race together despite crash

McLaren volition proceed to fto Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris contention freely for the Formula 1 rubric but determination volition beryllium immoderate pugnacious talks backmost astatine the mill aft Sunday's collision successful Canada.

Norris accepted the blasted aft hitting the rear of his championship-leading Australian teammate's car portion trying to overtake successful a conflict for 4th spot 3 laps from the finish.

The incidental betwixt the rubric frontrunners, with Piastri extending his pb to 22 points portion Norris failed to score, was the speech of the paddock astatine Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and had been agelong predicted.

McLaren main Andrea Stella said the squad would sermon erstwhile the particulate had settled however to forestall it from happening again.

"Definitely determination volition beryllium bully conversations, but they volition hap erstwhile we are each rested and calm," the Italian told reporters.

He said the squad would question to "preserve our parity and equality successful presumption of however we spell racing astatine McLaren betwixt our 2 drivers."

"The being escaped to contention and the being wide arsenic to however we spell racing is simply a worth of racing," helium added.

"It is simply a worth of racing that we privation to effort and workout and respect arsenic overmuch arsenic we can, alternatively than each clip we person a proximity betwixt the 2 cars past having power from the pit wall.

"We privation to springiness Lando and Oscar opportunities to contention and opportunities to beryllium astatine the extremity of the play successful the presumption that they merit to beryllium in."

Stella said the points should bespeak the drivers' show alternatively than immoderate squad orders.

"This is not needfully a elemental and consecutive workout but we privation to effort and bash it arsenic champion arsenic we can," helium said. "So I don't foresee that today's occurrence volition alteration our attack from this constituent of view.

"If thing it volition reenforce and it volition fortify that the principles we person necessitate much caution by our drivers."

Stella said the incidental was a elemental misjudgement of region alternatively than an assertive connection of intent and helium appreciated Norris' ownership of responsibility.

He recognised the Briton's assurance could beryllium dented, with the operator ever unfastened successful his emotions and prone to blaming himself successful a rubric conflict progressively going Piastri's way, but Norris could number connected each support.

"On this 1 I privation to beryllium wholly clear," Stella said. "It's afloat enactment to Lando. We volition person conversations and the conversations whitethorn beryllium adjacent tough. But there's nary uncertainty implicit the enactment we springiness to Lando.

"Lando himself volition person to amusement his quality to flooded this benignant of episode. Make definite that helium lone takes the learnings, helium lone takes what volition marque him a stronger driver."

Piastri has won 5 of the 10 races truthful acold to Norris' 2 with 14 remaining.

The adjacent contention is successful Austria connected June 29.