Following Zak Brown’s warning that the conversations will come, Martin Brundle has told Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris that if they hurt McLaren, “there’ll be payback.”

Piastri, up by nine points in the drivers’ standings, and Norris are cruising towards one of the most tame intra-team title fights ever seen in Formula 1.

‘If you hurt the team, we’ll hurt you, there’ll be payback’

Despite trading blows and momentum over the course of the first 14 races, the McLaren teammates have yet to turn a wheel in anger or throw a verbal slight through the media.

Instead, it’s been all smiles and congratulations as one or the other has won a grand prix, with Norris taking three of the last four 1-2 finishes to close the deficit to Piastri to nine points.

In a championship fight that almost fr

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