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McLaren chief Brown: Managing Norris and Piastri will be a challenge

Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are targeting success in the 2025 Formula One season, and it is on Zak Brown to manage his McLaren drivers.

McLaren chief executive Zak Brown accepts managing Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will be a challenge as the team-mates vie for the 2025 Drivers' Championship.

Norris won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, the last race of the 2024 Formula One season, to secure the Constructors' Championship for McLaren before declaring that "next year is my year".

McLaren had not won a constructors' title since 1998.

Piastri has also confirmed that individual glory is his aim for 2025 and Brown conceded that juggling the prospects of both drivers may prove challenging.

He told Sky Sports News: "I think you want the clean sweep. Why not be greedy and say: 'I want the drivers' one and the constructors' too'?

"That's the goal going into next year. Lando had eight poles – unbelievable. Oscar had a fantastic season, so I think we have two drivers that can compete for the Championship.

"I'm sure all the men and women here will give them both another race car that's capable of winning races and fighting for the championship.

"I'm sure it will be a challenge at times but we'll just take it one race at a time."

Norris came second to Max Verstappen this season, so appears the best set to push for the title next season.

But Brown insists both drivers have been and will continue to be treated equally.

He said: "Only one of them can finish first in any weekend.

"They're great team-mates, they're great team players. I think we saw that come through again in Qatar when we told Lando that he didn't need to swap positions and he insisted that he owed his team-mate one.

"Of course, come showtime, they both want to win, but they race each other cleanly. What we do is treat everyone fairly, equally, transparently, so there's no surprises.

"We'll just see how the season unfolds and hopefully we have the challenge of two drivers fighting for the same Drivers' Championship at the last race of the year."

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