From Hungary 2024 to Monza 2025, here's how McLaren have navigated team orders and tension between title-chasing teammates Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted struggling rookie Kimi Antonelli's entire Italian Grand Prix was "underwhelming" but has reaffirmed his belief in the teenager as a future superstar.
Max Verstappen and Helmut Marko have credited Red Bull's surprisingly dominant Italian Grand Prix victory to a change in approach to setting up the car.
McLaren's handling of the Lando Norris-Oscar Piastri rivalry is genuinely admirable in a sport where the pursuit of victory often comes at all costs, but Sunday showed where the limitations are.
Denny Hamlin won from the pole position at World Wide Technology Raceway, playing the strategy perfectly to lead the final 25 laps in his series-high fifth victory this season.
Max Verstappen said his performance at the Italian Grand Prix was "better than expected" and the race win marked a "step forward with the behavior of the car."
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has warned rivals McLaren against setting complicated precedents after team orders were used to invert the positions of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris at the Italian Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri has downplayed the controversy over McLaren's team orders at the Italian Grand Prix, saying it was "fair" for him to cede position to teammate Lando Norris in the closing stages of the race.