McLaren has the best car on the grid and the funny thing is that this can turn against the British team, which dominates the general points table with its two drivers, locked in a high-voltage pulse that we will see how it ends. The tension levels between them do not stop skyrocketing, and the scuffle exploded this Saturday in Austin, in the first braking of the short test, where the two collided with each other with the collaboration of Nico Hulkenberg. The somewhat rowdy arrival of the German from Sauber, who found himself in unusual latitudes for him, led him to hit the car of the Melbourne driver, who caromed off Norris. The worst nightmare for the already champion manufacturer, which was quick to point out ‘Hulk’ as the main person responsible for the disaster. “None of our drivers were to blame. It was some amateur thing,” accused Zak Brown, McLaren director.
The executive will have to sit his two boys down again to refresh them on the ‘papaya rules’, that team code of conduct, so easy to interpret in the eyes of the managers and so confusing for the riders, some of the most selfish beings on the planet. They can compete, but not touch, something that has happened too many times for the joy of and he gave his two opponents an eight-point bite. This Saturday’s collapse in Texas may anticipate what happens on Sunday (9:00 p.m., Dazn), where the Dutchman will start from pole for the seventh time so far this season, again ahead of Norris (second) and Piastri, completely out of focus (sixth). Carlos Sainz will start ninth and Fernando Alonso, tenth.
