07-07-2025
Dramatic cost of Piastri penalty revealed
It was a team effort at McLaren but the result cut Piastri's lead again, this time to 161-158. Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP
It returned to regular programming in Spain with Piastri going from pole to a fifth win of the season. Photo byIt was another 1-2 for Piastri and Norris. But the fifth win of the year puts the 24-year-old in rare air as just the third Aussie to claim five wins in a season after Sir Jack Brabham in 1960 and Alan Jones 1980. Photo by Andrea Diodato/NurPhoto via Getty Images
The result meant that Piastri returned to a 10 point lead – going 186-176 in the driver's championship. Photo by Andrea Diodato/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Round 10 in Canada was a culmination of the competition between the two McLaren's with Piastri coming out the better. While Piastri could only manage fourth in the race, Norris did not finish after he took on the Aussie. Photo by Rudy Carezzevoli / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
It got a bit spicy between the teammates with Norris taking a lunge around the outside of Piastri and finding the wall. Norris took responsibility for the incident, telling team radio: 'I'm sorry, it's all my bad. All my fault. Unlucky, sorry, stupid from me'. It also saw Piastri move to 198-176 — opening up his biggest buffer of the year. Photo: Fox Sports
Piastri remained at the top of the driver's championship but Lando Norris cut into his lead with a much needed win in round 11 in Austria. Photo: AP Photo/Darko Bandic
After Piastri was third in qualifying behind pole sitter Norris, the pair had their own race, finishing two seconds apart and another 17 seconds ahead of Charles Leclerc in third. Photo byThe result trimmed Piastri's lead again to 216-201 but the boys enjoyed another champagne shower on the top step. Photo by
