Brundle makes his feelings clear on Oscar Piastri not helping Lando Norris

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Martin Brundle direct message to Lando Norris about Oscar Piastri
3 September at 13:00
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Martin Brundle has made his thoughts clear on the situation between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. The former F1 racing driver sees the Australian have no interest in helping Norris fight against Max Verstappen for the Formula 1 World Championship, and he commends that mentality.

The story is now familiar. Norris started from pole position at Monza but lost the lead to Piastri in what McLaren described as an "aggressive" move. The outcome for Norris meant he also left the door open for Charles Leclerc to embed himself between the two McLaren drivers. It's not the first time in 2024 that Piastri has taken points off Norris when it, arguably, could've been changed to give Norris a better chance of winning the World Championship.

Will Piastri help Norris win the F1 title?

After the race, McLaren hinted they will start to favour Norris as he has a 62-point gap to bridge over eight Grands Prix weekends. But Brundle warned the Australian has no interest. "Piastri clearly has no interest in Norris' world championship chances against Max Verstappen, which we'd already witnessed in Hungary when he firmly seized the lead in the first corner," Brundle said in his column for Sky Sports.

But the British pundit doesn't condemn this. "The racer in me admires this attitude. That's why Piastri won championships and ended up in a race-winning F1 car. The last thing which will excite him is Norris becoming world champion in the same car. That doesn't mean he won't help out at some point, and indeed that he hasn't helped out here and there already, but that racer's mentality and killer instinct is all important," Brundle added.