Here’s how McLaren’s papaya rules involving drivers Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris originated, and what they mean going into the Abu Dhabi showdown

McLaren Racing is preparing to do something no major team has tried before. Three race cars from future seasons will be offered to the public in December, giving bidders a shot at machinery that hasn’t even been fully revealed yet.

MCLAREN are getting bogged down in more team orders chaos as they chopped and changed once again. Zak Brown added a fresh twist by saying it would be “crazy” not to implement team orders between

Vettel was always the outside bet. He’d become F1’s youngest race winner in 2008, aged 21, but the pressure of his first championship fight through 2010 had tolled at points with some on-track errors. At no point had he led the standings, and it was only thanks to a late-season surge with wins in Japan and Brazil that he’d stayed in the hunt.

The 2025 Formula 1 Drivers’ championship all comes down to the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, with three drivers still in the running to claim the title. McLaren’s Lando Norris is in the driver’s seat to claim his first world title heading into the final race of the year,

CEO Zak Brown says McLaren could use team orders to manage the Formula 1 title fight if one of its drivers has a “significantly better chance” to win in Sunday's decisive Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. McLaren's Lando Norris leads the standings by 12 points from Red Bull's Max Verstappen,

"We will race accordingly to do whatever we can to get whatever that driver is in front to try and win the race,” Brown explained Friday.

McLaren have handed an F1 lifeline to Italian racing star Leonardo Fornaroli off the back of his 2025 F2 championship victory. At last weekend's Qatar Grand Prix, F1 and its competitive feeder series F2 took to the track in Lusail with both championships still up for grabs.

As usual GPblog brings you the best F1 stories of the day, 05 December, 2025. Helmut Marko says Red Bull will need to find performance themselves if Max Verstappen is to challenge McLaren for the title in Abu Dhabi,

Lando Norris has insisted he would not ask McLaren for a position swap with teammate Oscar Piastri if it meant he would win a maiden Formula 1 world championshi

Lando Norris has gone fastest in both practice sessions as he laid down a marker ahead of the three-way title decider at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

Rising talent Leonardo Fornaroli has finally been picked up by a Formula 1 team as he joins the McLaren Driver Development Programme. It has been truly baffling to see the Italian go without support from an F1 team in his junior career up to this point.