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"I’M NOT A NUMBER TWO" – OSCAR PIASTRI’S BLUNT WARNING TO MCLAREN MANAGEMENT 2026
After a brutal 2025 title fight, the Norris-Piastri rivalry reaches a breaking point. We analyze the 2026 McLaren driver fallout.
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are sticking together at McLaren for a fourth season in 2026, but things got tense as they battled over the 2025 F1 title.
For the first time, both drivers emerged as genuine title favourites when 2025 began. McLaren nailed their car, and it showed—Norris took the win in Australia, then Piastri racked up five victories in the first nine races.
But in July, McLaren shifted their focus to the 2026 car, and that gave Max Verstappen an opening. He clawed back from being 104 points behind Piastri and 70 behind Norris after 15 rounds. Still, Norris hung on and clinched the drivers’ title by just two points.
All season, you could feel the tension building behind the scenes. People started saying McLaren was favouring Norris, especially after a few team orders in Italy and some questionable strategy calls in Belgium and Hungary that seemed to go his way.
Norris claims his rivalry with Piastri is “as perfect” as the infamous Hamilton-Alonso showdown at McLaren. The outside world kept talking, but Piastri insisted his relationship with Norris was “better than ever”. Norris, though, compared what’s going on now to the fierce fight between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso back in 2007. For anyone who remembers, that partnership crashed and burned—Alonso left after a year, feeling like the team sided with Hamilton.
But Norris says he and Piastri have a rivalry just as good. He even mentioned the first F1 race he ever watched was Hamilton vs. Alonso at McLaren, and he thought it was “as perfect” as what he and Piastri have now. “To watch that, to see Lewis on the podium, the crowd, the energy—I wondered at seven years old what that would feel like,” Norris said while picking up the Autosport Champion award. “Last year, I got to live it. It was one of the most special moments of my life.”
As for Piastri, he’s now Norris’s longest-running teammate—2026 will be their fourth year together. Norris started alongside Carlos Sainz, then spent two years with Daniel Ricciardo before Piastri joined in 2023.
But their future as a duo isn’t guaranteed. There are rumours McLaren’s got an eye on Charles Leclerc at Ferrari in case Piastri decides to walk away after 2026. He’s apparently frustrated after how 2025 played out.
There were a few flashpoints. At Silverstone, Piastri wanted to swap places with Norris, but McLaren ignored him, and after a penalty for a safety car restart, Norris got his first home win. In Hungary, Norris beat Piastri again, this time thanks to a one-stop strategy McLaren let him run.
The biggest controversy came in Italy. McLaren told Piastri to give Norris back second place after an undercut, even though they’d told Norris he’d stay ahead if he let Piastri pit first. Piastri obeyed, but he wasn’t happy about it.
Then there was COTA, where McLaren blamed Piastri for a sprint race crash with Norris, even though earlier they’d punished Norris for banging wheels with Piastri in Singapore. All these decisions added up, and now people are wondering how much longer this pairing will last.
LANDO NORRIS REVEALS DAVID BECKHAM MESSAGE FOLLOWING 2025 F1 TITLE WIN
F1 Champion Lando Norris reveals the famous names in his DMs, including David Beckham, as he prepares for the 2026 season.
Lando Norris shared that David Beckham slid into his DMs after he clinched the 2025 Formula 1 drivers’ title, opening up a little about how much that support means to him.
Since his first championship win, Norris has been sifting through a flood of messages—though he’s also been trying to squeeze in some downtime during the winter break before diving back into 2026 prep.
“Honestly, I haven’t even read half of them,” Norris said on The Fast And The Curious podcast when someone asked who’d reached out after his victory. “There are so many I haven't looked at. I need to, but it takes ages. I’ve probably replied to about half. So, I’ve still got four days just to try and get through everything—Instagram, WhatsApp, wherever. It’s a lot. And honestly, there are some amazing people in there.”
He talked about hearing from all sorts of folks, too. “There are people from all kinds of sports. Some are absolute legends, some are people I grew up watching, some are younger, and some are older.”
“Getting that kind of support, just the congratulations and the respect, is something I really admire. It’s just a beautiful thing. But I’m sorry to anyone I haven’t replied to yet.”
Then, when someone brought up Beckham, Norris grinned. “We chat now and then about different stuff. Yeah, he messaged me. David’s always great. He pops into the garage sometimes—Bahrain, Qatar, and a few other places. He’s a cool guy. It’s always nice seeing his name pop up.”
Norris spent late January doing private testing in Barcelona, from the 26th to the 30th. After that, he headed to Bahrain for McLaren’s season launch on February 9th. More testing kicks off at the same track from February 11th to 13th and then again from the 18th to the 20th.
JUST IN: MAX VERSTAPPEN TARGETS TITLE RETURN AFTER PROMISING FIRST 2026 ENGINE RUN
Red Bull's first in-house engine, the RBPT DM01, exceeds expectations in Barcelona as Max Verstappen prepares for a 2026 title bid.
Max Verstappen wants his F1 crown back in 2026, but it all comes down to whether Red Bull’s brand-new engine is up to the challenge.
Last year, Verstappen’s winning streak finally ended. He missed a fifth straight title by just two points. Lando Norris, driving for McLaren, edged him out to take his first championship—even though Verstappen racked up the most wins and poles. Weirdly, Max never actually led the standings at any point in 2025. That hadn’t happened to him since 2020. Still, he wrapped up the season with eight Grand Prix wins and eight poles, while Red Bull kept pushing upgrades till the bitter end.
But there was a risk. Red Bull’s focus on the 2025 car might have hurt their 2026 project. Team boss Laurent Mekies tried to steer them away from the slide they’d started under Christian Horner, but he wasn’t convinced it made sense to throw everything at 2026 like the other teams.
And that might become a real problem if Red Bull’s standards slip. Ferrari stopped developing their 2025 car as early as April, and McLaren switched focus to 2026 regulations by July. Pretty much everyone else jumped on the new rules early, since F1 is changing just about everything—engines, aero, chassis, tyres. It’s the biggest shake-up the sport’s ever seen.
Red Bull has even more on their plate. For the first time, they’ll build their own engine instead of buying from someone else. Honda planned to leave but then signed up as Aston Martin’s factory partner, which left Horner—while he was still around—scrambling to launch Red Bull Powertrains.
Jan Lammers, who’s been around the block in F1 and at Le Mans, thinks Red Bull would actually be thrilled just to land in the top three next year. He’s not so sure Verstappen would settle for that. “I think Red Bull would be very happy if they could immediately run in the top six,” Lammers told RacingNews365. “If they can get into that top three, that’s a good start. I don’t know where Max draws the line for himself.”
Red Bull’s first in-house engine will run in both their main team and Racing Bulls in 2026. They’ve brought Ford on as a technical partner to help with the hybrid side of things. Building an engine for a brand-new ruleset is a massive leap for them—they’re used to being a customer, not starting from scratch. Now they have to nail a power unit that splits its energy 50/50 between electric and combustion, and it runs on advanced sustainable fuels.
To boost their odds, Red Bull poached a bunch of engine experts from Mercedes. That move has other teams a bit nervous, suspecting Red Bull might have found a loophole in the new engine rules.
So far, things don’t look too bad. The first signs from last week’s shakedown test in Barcelona were promising for their RBPT DM01 unit. But Red Bull isn’t satisfied yet. They’re still working out the kinks in how the engine delivers its power, after spotting a few rough edges during the first pre-season test of 2026.
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