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Should McLaren prioritise Oscar Piastri over Lando Norris?

Oscar Piastri holds a 22-point advantage over Lando Norris - should McLaren consider backing the Australian, despite the F1 season still being young?

McLaren has long maintained it has two 'number one' drivers and that it will not favour either Oscar Piastri or Lando Norris in the F1 drivers' championship fight. Following the Canadian Grand Prix, where the latter crashed into the former, there have been increasing calls for the constructors' champion to throw its weight behind the Australian driver, with the threat of Red Bull's Max Verstappen still looming large in third. Piastri holds a 22-point advantage over Norris with 10 of the 24-round F1 schedule in the books. The Dutchman is a further 21 points back. Last season, even as the British driver chased down the now-four-time F1 drivers' champion in the title hunt, the papaya outfit insisted on parity between its two drivers until considerably later in the campaign. This year, McLaren is adamant it wants to let the team-mates race , under the guidance of papaya rules, of course. And while the general consensus is that it is way too early in the calendar to consider team orders, Ralf Schumacher believes a choice to back Piastri has already been made internally at the Woking squad. It is beginning to become a polarising subject, and will only grow more divided as the season progresses and the championship fight intensifies, but what do F1 fans think of the situation? Let us know what you think McLaren should do by commenting and by voting below in the latest poll by RacingNews365 .

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