Norris beats piastri with surprise strategy gamble

The Australian was on top, then his gain was maximised by his team-mate’s DNF.

In the last race before Formula 1’s summer break, McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a definitive confirmation that the second half of the season is going to see them locked in battle

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will play out ...

The McLaren pairing Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri ...

As Bruce McLaren drove his Mercedes to Goodwood that fateful June day in 1970 he will have passed wheat fields of golden promise not quite ready for harvest. His own team, founded four years earlier,

This year, to travel between Spa’s upper and lower paddocks via the aptly named “stairs of death” – lethal in the wet – visitors had to pass through a custom-built vestibule featuring an ex-Ickx Ferra