Norris should have it in the bag, but I reckon because of that he’ll underperform. Hoping Piastri can deliver at least the race win.

I think Yuki has been around too long to pull an Ocon/Albon. He has less good will I feel, even thou it’s largely Red Bull’s fault.

DC loves to mention how other teams/teammates will make things easier, but it made absolutely no sense for Mercedes to give up points when they’re trying to secure second in the constructors.

The media is definitely making it more of a thing than it really is, but then they haven’t got much else to talk about. And to be fair McLaren aren’t helping themselves.

Verstappen… was asked in a news conference on Thursday in Austin whether he believed McLaren were favouring Norris.

He replied: “Absolutely.”

He laughed, and then said: “Yep.”

Leaving the news conference, he said off-microphone: “Well, there’s a headline.”

BBC Sport sought clarification from Verstappen as to whether he had been joking, and he said through a PR person that he had been.

As if you need to clarify such a thing