The 2025 Formula 1 season began in dream-like fashion for McLaren, with Lando Norris taking the win at the Australian Grand Prix and then settling for second behind teammate Oscar Piastri at the Chinese Grand Prix.
2026 has been something quite different for the team.
Piastri crashed on the reconnaissance at the Australian Grand Prix this year, and after suffering a mechanical fault on his MCL40 he could not start the Chinese Grand Prix, and he arrived in Suzuka for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix yet to turn a single lap in a Grand Prix this season. As for Norris, while he finished fifth in Melbourne, he too endured a failure
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