With McLaren having all but wrapped up the Constructors’ Championship, the time has come for its drivers to put their ambitions ahead of the team’s.

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been faithful servants, fulfilling the obligations asked of them on track, but as we get towards the business end of the championship battle, it’s time they began looking after Number 1.

The Italian Grand Prix pushed the world championship battle into a critical juncture

It’s a point that comes off the back of a divisive decision at the Italian Grand Prix, where Piastri was asked to move aside for Norris in the closing stages.

A slow pit stop had delayed the Brit and dropped him from second to third, a point the McLaren pit wall remedied by issuing team orders to Piastri.

It was a move done in what the

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