Dutch Grand Prix: Lando Norris looking for ‘some magic’ to beat Oscar Piastri at Zandvoort

Team principal Andrea Stella said that Piastri had not had any issues with the way Hungary played out and that both drivers were happy to carry on with this approach.

“Both drivers, Oscar included, accepted that there’s a degree of variability in racing,” Stella said. “There’s a level of variation of scenarios that can realise and that not necessarily are under your control.”

And the Italian emphasised that they could not rule out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in third place affecting their race. A good start from the Dutchman could easily see him pass at least one of the McLaren drivers in the freestyle of the first lap.

Stella said: “First thing we have to do in the interest of the team and in the interest of Lando and Oscar is to make sure that we beat Max, who is not very far, he’s 0.2secs away from us.

“Based on the difficulties in overtaking and the fact that there could be also some weather, first of all we have to make sure that we get the best result for the team with Lando and Oscar finishing possibly in the order that the car performance would say, and at the moment we can see that McLaren is the fastest car.

“When it comes to the options from a strategic point of view in between our two drivers, we do have some rules for that.

“I’m not going to share what rules they are but whatever you have seen so far in terms of how the strategy has been utilised, it’s always been within our rules.

“So it’s perfectly right for instance that there are deviations in terms of strategy.

“Here the strategy is not far between a one and a two-stop, so I think it will be once again interesting, not only between the two McLaren drivers but also with the other drivers.

“Max, for instance, he has a new (set of) soft (tyres) that he saved from qualifying and it could be a pretty powerful weapon if you can deploy this weapon strategically at the right time.”